Kathleen and Frank
Author: Isherwood, Christopher
ISBN: 9780099561194
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2013
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback / softback
First published in 1971, this is a key book in Isherwood's career revealing as much about him as the parents he set out to portray.
This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world which shaped Isherwood and which he rejected.
ISBN: 9780099561194
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2013
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback / softback
First published in 1971, this is a key book in Isherwood's career revealing as much about him as the parents he set out to portray.
This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world which shaped Isherwood and which he rejected.
