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The Memorial: Portrait of a Family
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date November 1, 1988
Pages 294
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780374520670
ISBN-10 0374520674
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $8.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father’s great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships.

Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stand in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.


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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780837135441
 
Reprint edition from Irvington Pub (December 1, 1972)
9780837135441 | details & prices | 294 pages | List price $32.00
About: With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780374520670 Book cover for 9780374533465
 
Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (June 11, 2013)
9780374533465 | details & prices | 294 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $17.00
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (November 1, 1988)
9780374520670 | details & prices | 294 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $8.95
About: With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society.

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