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Article: BIOGRAPHY; Amused and amazed; The first full-length Christopher Isherwood biography captures the British-American writer's rich life in glorious, unblinking detail, debunking a few myths along the way.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 12, 2004
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Byline: Claude Peck; Staff Writer
Christopher Isherwood, whose colorful, creative life spanned most of the 20th century, has been described with an amazing variety of adjectives, including these seemingly impossible pairings: charming/scheming, lazy/prolific, brave/traitorous, faithful/promiscuous, brilliant/prejudiced, grouchy/hilarious, open/guarded, resentful/generous, jealous/loving.
Sorting through so many contradictions requires a big biography, and we finally have one in Peter Parker's "Isherwood: A Life Revealed." Though it has been out in England since May, this intriguing, exhaustively researched book comes to the United States at the tail ...