All the Conspirators
by Christopher Isherwood
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In this novel by the author of The Berlin Stories , a listless pair of siblings in post-WWI London battle the constraints of society and their mother.It's the 1920s--the wake of the Great War--and Britain is undergoing a transformation.Tags
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2654 All the Conspirators A novel by Christopher Isherwood (read 2 Oct 1994) This was published in 1928, when Isherwood was 24. It tells of Philip, an angry son in revolt against his mother. Philip wants to write and paint and his mother thinks he should work. He gets sick, and his mother and sister wait on him hand and foot. In 1958 Isherwood referred to the book's "naive attempts at a James Joyce thought-stream, its aping of the mannerisms of Stephen Dedalus, its quaint echoes of Virginia Woolf, its jerky flashback narration crudely imitated from E. M. Forster." Since I was on his mother's side, and the book's protagonist is Philip, the book missed its mark with me.
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Christopher Isherwood, born in Cheshire, England, in 1904, wrote both novels and nonfiction. He was a lifelong friend of W.H. Auden and wrote several plays with him, including Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6. He lived in Germany from 1928 until 1933 and his writings during this period described the political and social climate of show more pre-Hitler Germany. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. He lived in California, working on film scripts and adapting plays for television. The musical Cabaret is based on several of Isherwood's stories and on his play, I Am a Camera. His other works include Mr. Norris Changes Trains, about life in Germany in the early 1930s; Down There on a Visit, an autobiographical novel; and Where Joy Resides, published after his death in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1928
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