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A single man

Christopher Isherwood

1978152 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1978
first published
  • 1978Avon · 157 pages · ENGISBN 9780380376896
  • 1978Magnum Books · 158 pages · ENGISBN 9780417028507
  • 1987Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 186 pages · ENGISBN 9780374520380
  • 1991Minerva · 158 pages · ENGISBN 9780749399009
  • 2001University of Minnesota Press · ENGISBN 9780816638628
  • 2010Vintage · 152 pages · ENGISBN 9780099541288
  • 2013Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 192 pagesISBN 9780374533878
  • 2013Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 192 pagesISBN 9781466853348

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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