The Sixties

Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969

Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell

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Vintage
01 May 2012

Biography; Autobiography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals

A great writer nails the sixties, from California to swinging London, in his fearless, insightful diaries - with a preface by Christopher Hitchens.

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback.

The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time - Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham and many others. They are most revealing about Isherwood himself - his fiction, his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart.

In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period such as the anxieties of the Cold War, the moon landing and the Vietnam war. In The Sixties Isherwood turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.

By: Christopher Isherwood
Edited by: Katherine Bucknell
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 1.022kg
ISBN: 9780099565222
ISBN 10: 0099565226
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Sixties: Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969

If the purpose of a published diary is to transport the reader into another person's life, then Isherwood's diaries succeed. They give you, fleetingly, the illusion of being him Sunday Times Culture 20100927 His cultural highmindedness makes his lowdown stuff even more entertaining Daily Mail Katherine Bucknell continues to prove an ideal editor. We are told all we need, and nothing we don't. nothing is repeated, and references to living persons feel both substantive and discreet. The Sixties counts as a model accomplishment of the professional and scrupulous handling of an important literary manuscript Literary Review Katherine Bucknell has done a tremendous job Financial Times, DJ Taylor My favourite book of the year. Financial Times, Christmas round up