A Single Man (novel)

A Single Man (novel)

Infobox Book
name = A Single Man
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image_caption = Cover of the University of Minnesota Press edition
author = Christopher Isherwood
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Gay novel
publisher = Simon & Schuster
pub_date = 1964
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 186 pp
isbn =
oclc = 171466
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followed_by = "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." [White, "Pool in Rocks by the Sea", 347.]

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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.


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