‘The best prose writer in English’ Gore Vidal
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.‘A virtuoso piece of work…courageous…powerful’ Sunday Times
“An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book.” ―Stephen Spender
“Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement.” ―Edmund White
“A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a
novelist.” ―Anthony Burgess
Author Biography
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and
later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He
witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany
and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to
Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles,
later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled
with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in
1939. He died on 4 January 1986.
