Liberation: Diaries Volume 03 1970-1983

Liberation: Diaries Volume 03 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood


ISBN
9780701184490
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
928
Dimensions
162 x 240 x 54mm

'A slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes' is how Virginia Woolf characterised the young Christopher Isherwood. This final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, records the golden decades of the life-long adventurer, the boy who never wanted to grow up. He greets advancing age with his familiar, unquenchable appetite for the new, and writes with disarming candour about his fear of death. The mainstays of his mature contentment, his Hindu guru, Swami Prabhavnananda, and his long-term companion, Don Bachardy, draw from him an unexpected high tide of love and joy.
Bachardy's burgeoning career pulled Isherwood into the centre of the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New York and London, where we meet Rauschenberg, Ruscha, and Warhol (who served meat too smelly to eat) as well as Hockney (adored) and Kitaj. For Hollywood Don and Chris worked together on scripts for stage and screen, including the prize-winning Frankenstein and the Broadway fiasco, A Meeting by the River. John Huston, Merchant and Ivory, David Bowie, John Travolta, Elton John, Joan Didion, Armistead Maupin all take a turn through Isherwood's human comedy, sketched with ruthlessness and benevolence against the background of the Vietnam War, the Energy Crisis, the Nixon, Carter and Reagan White Houses.
In Kathleen and Frank, his first book of this period, Isherwood unearthed the family demons from which he had been on the run all his life. As his contemporaries begin to die, he responded by revealing fresh truths about their shared experiences, particularly in Christopher and His Kind, fulfilling his role as the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation - the one political movement to which he ever committed himself.
Poignant and entertaining in equal measure, Liberation is an extraordinary and intimate journey into the mind of one of the most significant commentators of our time.
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