A Single Man, like its forerunner Down There on a Visit, is perhaps not best read as a novel and is just hazily fictional. Its title character is George, a flaccid 58, not only the victim of his failing functions but emotionally devastated now that Jim is dead. This is his nasty commentary on the world he views as The Enemy (Woman too shares that designation).

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A Single Man begins with prose so painfully and exquisitely beautiful that I re-read the first couple pages a few times in a row. George, a gay middle-aged English professor in the 1960s, is grieving the loss of his lover, Jim. He gets up. He goes to work. He visits his best friend Charlotte for dinner, and finishes out the day with a surprising encounter with one of his students. The entire

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is an outstanding story for a number of reasons. First of all, the author himself was drawn to this book more than to his other works. Moreover, the topic described in it helps to show that love is love; no one has a right to prevent adult, mentally healthy individuals from finding happiness, building families and just living the way they want to live.

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Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows …

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