A first-rate biography of the man, the writer, and the lover, Christopher Isherwood. With impressive research and insightful judgments from Katherine Bucknell, this biography explores the life of the man who became famous through his writings on 1930s Berlin.

Christopher Isherwood, heir to an English estate, rejected the life he was born into and decided to create a different one. After failing at university, he moved to Berlin, toured Europe under the pressure of the Nazis, and eventually ended up in Hollywood.

There he adopted a new religion and continued to form friendships, including an incredible number of romantic and sexual relationships, through which he discovered himself.

Using a wealth of unpublished material, the book "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out" narrates how the traumas from his father's death during World War I and his failure to protect his German lover from the Nazis were healed through his life as a monk in the 1940s. Thus, he was able to commit without reservations to a sexually open relationship in the 1950s and emerged as a 'grand old man' of the gay rights movement in the 1970s.

With this new biography, Katherine Bucknell, enriched by unlimited access to his partner Don Bachardy, shows how Christopher Isherwood achieved a uniquely inspiring personal life. He brought about lasting changes in our culture, both through his literary works and through the way he lived.

Pages: 864, Dimensions: 16.2x16.2cm