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Title	:	A Single Man
Author	:	Christopher Isherwood
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2001 by Univ Of Minnesota Press (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Classics. GLBT. Queer. Gay

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 22720 Users | 1780 Reviews

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"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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Original Title:	A Single Man
ISBN:	0816638624 (ISBN13: 9780816638628)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George Falconer, Kenny Potter, Charley, Jim
Setting:	Los Angeles, California,1962(United States)

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A Single Man is a day in the life (quaint naturalist device, that) of a middle-aged Englishman and English professor grieving in a numbed, autopilot kinda way after the recent death of his partner. I remember Don Bachardy saying in the film Chris and Don: A Love Story that Isherwood wrote this novel during one of their trial separations; the intensity of Georges sense of loss was therefore underwritten by Isherwoods own dreadful imagination of life without Don. I loved Georges morning, and his

Probably the greatest and saddest ending to a book I have ever read.

Masks - we all wear them. We've got our work masks and our family masks and our friend masks. Then, try adding to that being a gay man living in the netherworld of not pretending to be straight but also not able to be fully out (the early 1960s). That's a lot of freakin' masks! And it's exhausting. And our hero, George, is tired, tired of the bullshit and hypocrisy. Thankfully, he still has a biting sense of humor and beware if you're on the receiving end of his satirical skewer. But George is

I am not sure if I am just ignorant of what the humor was like in the 60s, or if Christopher Isherwood was way ahead of his time, but this book definitely has what I would call a modern sense of humor. Its that special blend of bittersweet heartbreak, self-deprecation, and sardonic wit. I am very familiar with this type of humor from my favorite movies and television shows, but I am pleasantly surprised to find it here, in this brilliant little book that, on the surface, appears to be about

I am not sure if I am just ignorant of what the humor was like in the 60s, or if Christopher Isherwood was way ahead of his time, but this book definitely has what I would call a modern sense of humor. Its that special blend of bittersweet heartbreak, self-deprecation, and sardonic wit. I am very familiar with this type of humor from my favorite movies and television shows, but I am pleasantly surprised to find it here, in this brilliant little book that, on the surface, appears to be about

Oh, Colin Firth, you are just perfect in every (single) way, and Julianne Moore, can I become you? Let me get drunk with you guys and dance to 'Green Onions' with you. What a name for a song, right? And I don't even dance.Is that Don Draper on the phone? Ask to speak to Betty! And Mary's husband, long before Downton Abbey, with Nicholas Hoult and that sweater. Where do I get one? A Nicholas Hoult, and a sweater. Let's not forget the scene with John Kortajarena and Janet Leigh--absolute