A Single Man A Novel [Paperback]

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 Manfollows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surgebut what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.

When Christopher Isherwood'sA Single Manfirst 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.

Christopher Isherwood(1904-1986) was born in Manchester, England, and lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books. FSG Classics presents some of his finest work, including the novelsPrater Violet,A Single Man, andA Meeting by the River; the semi-autobiographicalLions and Shadows; and the memoirChristopher and His Kind.

An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book. Stephen Spender

Isherwood'sA Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement. Edmund White

A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist. Anthony Burgess