Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood [U.K HARDCOVER] 1985 • Metheun

Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood  U.K. HARDCOVER [1985] METHEUN Rare 1985 UK hardcover re-issue.  Mid-sized hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has some light wear and tanning; looks great in a new archival quality jacket protector.   Book itself is excellent and reads like new.  Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels-who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of th