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Article: Everywhere man: sexually, spiritually, and politically, Christopher Isherwood lived his life to the limits--a gay hero for our time.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2004
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Isherwood: A Life Revealed
* Peter Parker * Random House * $39.95
"Chisolm was never more than a minor diversion, and Isherwood was still seeing Derek Neame.... He was also still having sex with Tony Hyndman 'whenever the opportunity offered itself.'"
Many kinds of readers will want a copy of Isherwood: A Life Revealed, Peter Parker's massive, exhaustively detailed biography of one of the key literary figures of the last century. But for the book's gay readers, the passage quoted above goes to show that Parker, the out biographer of J.R. Ackerley, was the perfect man for the job: With Isherwood, if you've got the boyfriends right, then pretty ...