A Single Man (novel)
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| A Single Man | |
.jpg/180px-A_Single_Man_(novel).jpg) Cover of the University of Minnesota Press edition |
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| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Gay novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | 1964 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 186 pp |
| OCLC | 171466 |
A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a gay middle-aged Englishman who works as a college professor in Los Angeles and whose lover, Jim, has recently died.
Isherwood dedicated the novel to Gore Vidal.
Edmund White called A Single Man "one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement."[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ White, "Pool in Rocks by the Sea", 347.
[edit] References
- White, Edmund. "Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy." Artforum, February 1992. Reprinted in The Burning Library: Essays. Vintage, 1995, 345-349.
