A single man

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186 pages

English language

Published Oct. 11, 1987 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-52038-0
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Classic fiction. The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.

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Beautiful book with a completely different message than the movie; the movie is a more "refined" version of the book, taking certain parts of the spectrum and leaving other parts behind to have a clear message.
The book is all over the place in a pragmatic way; life is chaos and confusion, Isherwood isn't trying to depict it in any other way.

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Subjects

  • Middle-aged men -- Fiction
  • Gay men -- Fiction
  • Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
  • Grief -- Fiction