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Original Title:	A Single Man
ISBN:	0816638624 (ISBN13: 9780816638628)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George Falconer, Kenny Potter, Charley, Jim
Setting:	Los Angeles, California,1962(United States)

A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 22720 Users | 1780 Reviews

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Title	:	A Single Man
Author	:	Christopher Isherwood
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2001 by Univ Of Minnesota Press (first published 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Classics. GLBT. Queer. Gay

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"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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A Single Man is a day in the life (quaint naturalist device, that) of a middle-aged Englishman and English professor grieving in a numbed, autopilot kinda way after the recent death of his partner. I remember Don Bachardy saying in the film Chris and Don: A Love Story that Isherwood wrote this novel during one of their trial separations; the intensity of Georges sense of loss was therefore underwritten by Isherwoods own dreadful imagination of life without Don. I loved Georges morning, and his

An astounding piece of work; a day in the life of novel. The day belongs to George Falconer; an English professor in his 50s (English by nationality as well) teaching in southern California. It is set in the early 1960s. Georges lover Jim has recently died suddenly and he is alone again. The novel takes us from waking to breakfast, to travelling to work and so on. This doesnt have the grandiosity of Joyce; it is much more straightforward and focuses living each day because of lifes brevity. The

Christopher Isherwood has written a book that makes me hate him. Or maybe I hate myself? The main theme of this book is loss; loss of a lover, loss of youth, loss of identity, loss of direction, it's all there in beautifully phrased observations and it tickled that spot in my mind, the spot where I hide all of my fears, until I could no longer ignore the fact that I am and I continue to lose these things myself until one day the devastating and unthinkable will happen and I will lose that which

Oh, Colin Firth, you are just perfect in every (single) way, and Julianne Moore, can I become you? Let me get drunk with you guys and dance to 'Green Onions' with you. What a name for a song, right? And I don't even dance.Is that Don Draper on the phone? Ask to speak to Betty! And Mary's husband, long before Downton Abbey, with Nicholas Hoult and that sweater. Where do I get one? A Nicholas Hoult, and a sweater. Let's not forget the scene with John Kortajarena and Janet Leigh--absolute

I am not sure if I am just ignorant of what the humor was like in the 60s, or if Christopher Isherwood was way ahead of his time, but this book definitely has what I would call a modern sense of humor. Its that special blend of bittersweet heartbreak, self-deprecation, and sardonic wit. I am very familiar with this type of humor from my favorite movies and television shows, but I am pleasantly surprised to find it here, in this brilliant little book that, on the surface, appears to be about

I wouldnt dare to write anything about someones absence and how it bares you, as it is already there, tightly packed into this mesmerizing little book. We never truly experience what absence is till its too late, dont we? Thats why we are never prepared. A Single Man, to me, is a novel about Jim-less George and his pain which feels too real to absorb - palpable and ugly, physical and raw, at times almost disgusting. Whats more important (and what I discovered reading this book for the second

English (A Single Man)/ ItalianoGeorge, a middle-aged professor, has an ordinary life, but now he must relate to loneliness because of the untimely passing of his partner. Glimmers of light thanks to few daily joys can be seen in his gray days: a female friend who invites him to dinner to distract him, but awkwardily ends up kissing him, ignoring his homosexuality and pretending more than what George can offer her. Or a college student who spends the night at George's house, giving him a few