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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Minnesota Pr
Publication date February 1, 1999
Pages 250
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780816633678
ISBN-10 0816633673
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.85 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $17.95
Other format details university press
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Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?

Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.



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Paperback
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Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (June 11, 2013)
9780374533809 | details & prices | 318 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $17.00
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With Isherwood Christopher | from Univ of Minnesota Pr (February 1, 1999)
9780816633678 | details & prices | 250 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Bremen, 1928.
Reissue edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (June 1, 1987)
9780374520526 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $8.95
About: Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place—Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the time period of the Berlin Stories), the Greek Isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s and California in 1940—this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood’s fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality and self-fulfillment.

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