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Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge--but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.
When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- ISBN: 9780374533878
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.21 x 0.52
- Number Of Pages: 186
- Publication Year: 2013
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Good, but not quite what I loved about the movie
MICHAEL E. - 5 years 5 months agoRecently read the book , A Single Man, with mixed feelings. The tone of the book was much different than the movie version I loved. The events are largely the same: centered around a day in the life of a middle-aged professor, still mourning a year later, the death of his long-time lover. In the movie I remember, Colin Firth's character goes about settling his affairs as he prepares to take his own life, and it's only the discovery of new hope for love that he finds reason to go on living. Yes, the main character is gay, and his dead partner was another man, but the themes of loss, grief and finding hope are universal to us all. In the book however a major throughline is his continual resentment of living a repressed life in a heterosexual world; desperate to put aside his careful facade and make a real human connection. I can't fault a gay author for exploring what has always been a serious issue for gay people: feeling free to be who they are in a non-accepting world, especially in the more repressed time when this book was written. It just wasn't the theme I was seeking to explore when I picked up the book. #SpringPicks
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A powerful story of how grief for a lost love affects a human heart.
Kelly Z. - 6 years 5 months agoThis is such a great book! A very moving story of a man dealing with grief for his partner and the overwhelming changes he now faces in his life. Can George recover from his devastating loss? Although the ending doesn't turn out how I wanted it to, it is a satisfying conclusion.