{"product_id":"christopher-and-his-kind-christopher-isherwood-2015-pb-memoir-1929-1939-lgbt","title":"Christopher and His Kind, Memoir by Christopher Isherwood  1929-1939 LGBT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eAn indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOriginally published in 1976, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eChristopher and His Kind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life―from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels―and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e I Am a Camera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eCabaret\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWhat most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eChristopher and His Kind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46173128392901,"sku":"OFK10426001","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/57_ffbc3b9e-8688-4755-98e8-32f22f16b42d.jpg?v=1777890392","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/christopher-and-his-kind-christopher-isherwood-2015-pb-memoir-1929-1939-lgbt","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}