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Article: The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood.(Review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2000
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The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
Edited with an introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
University of Wisconsin Press $34.95
From reprinted novels and diaries to a previously unpublished memoir, everything's coming up Isherwood
Perhaps the most telling anecdote about Christopher Isherwood's long and crowded life occurred in the high bohemian society of Hollywood in the 1940s. It must have been a golden gay era--all those parties around George Cukor's pool, all those soldiers and sailors ready for anything--and Isherwood was very much at the epicenter. So much so that Greta Garbo took a ...