The final instalment in the trilogy that is the Isherwood dairies.
The three volumes in toto add up to roughly 2,500 pages.
The triumph of these fascinating memoirs, aside from their emotional honesty, wit and historical interest, lies as much with Katherine Bucknell - as with the author himself. For Bucknell proves to be an empathetic editor as well as a painstaking one. Her introductions to each volume are a joy to read.
We follow Isherwood through the years, and become intimate eavesdroppers into his life as a screenwriter. We are also witness to his enduring relationship with Don Bachardy and his many Hollywood friends. Isherwood realised that the Diaries would be published after his death. Indeed they do tell-all. Yet some identities remain censored, thirty years on.
The triumph of these fascinating memoirs, aside from their emotional honesty, wit and historical interest, lies as much with Katherine Bucknell - as with the author himself. For Bucknell proves to be an empathetic editor as well as a painstaking one. Her introductions to each volume are a joy to read.
We follow Isherwood through the years, and become intimate eavesdroppers into his life as a screenwriter. We are also witness to his enduring relationship with Don Bachardy and his many Hollywood friends. Isherwood realised that the Diaries would be published after his death. Indeed they do tell-all. Yet some identities remain censored, thirty years on.
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