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Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

By Christopher Isherwood

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2015
ISBN
9780374713522, 2015935185
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3454780 bytes)
Series
FSG Classics
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-21 10:05:03
Biography & Autobiography; LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction);

Description

A pivotal book in Isherwood's career that reveals as much about him as the parents he set out to portray Kathleen and Frank is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents—their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world that shaped Isherwood and that he rejected.

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