The Animals

The Animals
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 532
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780701186784
ISBN-13 : 070118678X
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Animals by : Christopher Isherwood

"Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Hollywood. The Animals provides a loving testimony of an extraordinary relationship that lasted until Chris's death in 1986 and survived affairs (on both sides) and a thirty-year-age-gap. In romantic letters to one another, the couple created the private world of the Animals. Chris was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Don was the playful young white cat, Kitty. But Don needed to carve out his own identity some of their longest sequences of letters were exchanged during his trips to London and New York, to pursue his career as an artist and to widen his emotional and sexual horizons. Amidst the intimate domestic dramas, we learn of Isherwood's continuing literary success the royalty cheques from Cabaret, the acclaim for his pioneering novel A Single Man and the bohemian whirl of Californian film suppers and beach life. Don, whose portraits of London theatrel

A Meeting by the River

A Meeting by the River
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 130
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374711054
ISBN-13 : 0374711054
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis A Meeting by the River by : Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood's final work of fiction—an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticism After a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick, a successful publisher with a wife and children in London and a male lover in California, has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices. First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River delicately depicts the complexity of sibling relationships—the resentment and competitiveness as well as the love and respect. Ultimately, the brothers' exposure to each other's differences deepens their awareness of themselves. In A Meeting by the River, Christopher Isherwood dramatizes the conflict between sexuality and spirituality that inspired his late writings. “The best prose writer in English.” Gore Vidal

The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 529
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374105174
ISBN-13 : 0374105170
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by : Christopher Isherwood

"The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own words Christopher Isherwood was the celebrated middle-aged English author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Defying convention, the two created an enduring relationship out of that initial spark--living as an openly gay couple for more than three decades in the closeted world of Hollywood. The Animals is the testimony in letters of their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986--despite a thirty-year age gap, affairs, jealousies, the pressures of literary fame, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. In romantic letters to each other, they invented the private world of the Animals. Chris was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Don was a rash, spirited white kitten named Kitty. The ability to create a world, a safe and separate milieu, was a great talent of Isherwood's--and a necessary one as a gay man in mid-twentieth-century America. But Isherwood knew how to spread hay around his stable and attract beauty. He drew Bachardy into his semisecret realm and together they invented a place for their love to thrive. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals shows us the devotion between two creative spirits in tenderness and storms"--

Stars in My Eyes

Stars in My Eyes
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780299167332
ISBN-13 : 029916733X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Stars in My Eyes by : Don Bachardy

Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist Don Bachardy made portraits from life, depicting the actors, writers, artists, composers, directors, and Hollywood elite that he and his partner Christopher Isherwood knew. He then made detailed notes about these portrait sittings in the journal he has kept for more than forty years. The result is a unique document: we enter the mind of the artist as he records the images and behavior of his celebrity subjects—from Ruby Keeler and Barbara Stanwyck to Jack Nicholson and Linda Ronstadt—during their often intense collaboration with him. Finalist, Lambda Book Award

Hollywood

Hollywood
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Publisher : Glitterati
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0991341929
ISBN-13 : 9780991341924
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Hollywood by : Don Bachardy

"With more than 300 paintings and drawings, this ... features the most influential figures in filmmaking, including such luminaries as Bette Davis, Ian McKellen, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Kate Burton and Glenn Ford. Having lived in Hollywood his entire life, Bachardy has been capturing the likenesses of Hollywood stars for over five decades"--Publisher's description.

The Man who was Norris

The Man who was Norris
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Publisher : Dark Masters
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1909232432
ISBN-13 : 9781909232433
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Man who was Norris by : Tom Cullen

The seedy and beguiling Gerald Hamilton was the man who Isherwood modelled Mr. Norris on in Mr. Norris Changes Trains.

Drawings of the Male Nude

Drawings of the Male Nude
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Publisher : Twelvetrees
Total Pages : 94
Release :
ISBN-10 : 094264218X
ISBN-13 : 9780942642186
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis Drawings of the Male Nude by : Don Bachardy

Leninsky Prospekt

Leninsky Prospekt
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 32
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780007178681
ISBN-13 : 0007178689
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Leninsky Prospekt by : Katherine Bucknell

'Leninsky Prospekt' is an enthralling novel about conflicting allegiances to family, friends, nations, ideals, at a time of legendary international tension. Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2005.

Canarino

Canarino
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 21
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780007285556
ISBN-13 : 0007285558
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Canarino by : Katherine Bucknell

This remarkable debut novel is a vibrant tale of beauty and passion, stalked by desolation. Katherine Bucknell captures the tragedy of a marriage on the brink with extraordinary delicacy and insight and draws us into a compelling world glittering with wealth and social prestige.

Diaries: 1939-1960

Diaries: 1939-1960
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1112
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105019190987
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Diaries: 1939-1960 by : Christopher Isherwood

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