Christopher and His Kind, Christopher Isherwood
Christopher and His Kind, Christopher Isherwood
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Christopher and His Kind

Author: Christopher Isherwood

Narrator: James Clamp

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2010


Synopsis

Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life—from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis.

An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains a classic in gay liberation literature and one of Isherwood’s greatest achievements.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barney on March 06, 2017

"he must never again give way to embarrassment, never deny the rights of his tribe, never apologize for its existence..." christopher and his kind provides a fascinating depiction of (privileged) gay life in western europe in the tinderbox years before ww2. what struck me thoroughly was how relativel......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on September 10, 2023

Immediately prior to reading Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood I read, and really enjoyed, Mr Norris Changes Trains, so I was excited to find out more about Christopher Isherwood’s life during the 1930s. Christopher and His Kind is an autobiographical account of Christopher Isherwood'......more

Goodreads review by Erik on July 16, 2017

The most ironic part of being a reader of "Christopher and His Kind" is that one regrets having not read the rest of his oeuvre while simultaneously experiencing the dragging feeling that one really doesn't want to read the rest of his works. While this work is certainly speckled with important thou......more

Goodreads review by Jesse on January 05, 2015

The first book that I picked up after completing the last course for my English M.A. program was one that had been hovering near the top of my to-read list for a long while: Isherwood’s elegant autumnal autobiography Christopher and His Kind. If I had realized how much of it is devoted to clarifying......more

Goodreads review by katrina on February 20, 2009

So many things I loved about this book- 1. Clever switching between first and third person throughout. He'll say "I think that Christopher should have realized bla bla bla" when speaking about his current opinions and thoughts on himself in the past. 2. I had previously read "The Berlin Stories" and l......more