- A Single Man (novel)
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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
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oclc = 171466
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followed_by = "A Single Man" is a 1964 novel byChristopher Isherwood . Set inSouthern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a gay middle-aged Englishman who works as a college professor inLos Angeles and whose lover, Jim, has recently died. Isherwood dedicated the novel toGore Vidal .Edmund White called "A Single Man" "one of the first and best novels of the moderngay liberation movement." [White, "Pool in Rocks by the Sea", 347.]Notes
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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