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A single man / Christopher Isherwood.
LIBRA PR6017.S5 S4 2013
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Isherwood Single
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, author.
- Series:
- FSG classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle-aged men--Fiction.
- Middle-aged men.
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Fictional literature.
- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Welcome to sunny surburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. We follow him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge- but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices."--back cover.
- Notes:
- "A novel"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. Single man
- ISBN:
- 9780374533878
- 0374533873
- OCLC:
- 850926813
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374533878 51500
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