A Single Man (novel)

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A Single Man

Cover of the University of Minnesota Press edition
Author Christopher Isherwood
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Gay novel
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date 1964
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 186 pp
OCLC 171466

A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a gay middle-aged Englishman who works as a college professor in Los Angeles and whose lover, Jim, has recently died.

Isherwood dedicated the novel to Gore Vidal.

Edmund White called A Single Man "one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement."[1]


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ White, "Pool in Rocks by the Sea", 347.


[edit] References

  • White, Edmund. "Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy." Artforum, February 1992. Reprinted in The Burning Library: Essays. Vintage, 1995, 345-349.