Christopher Isherwood originally intended Down There on a Visit to be part of The Lost, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin... Free shipping over $10. Buy a cheap copy of Down There on a Visit book by Christopher Isherwood. Despite all that Christopher Isherwood achieves in his new novel—with its lucid, barely tense prose and its complex structure—Down There on a Visit is a curiously thin and, in a sense, even an unfinished book. Down There on a Visit was published some decades after The Berlin Stories but it takes place around the same period of time, starting a little bit earlier and continuing quite a few years after the timeline of the Berlin novels. Simon & Schuster. Isherwood, the author of seven novels, is a rather special sort of writer. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers. Down there on a visit by Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986, author. 18 Previews . ENCRYPTED DAISY download. I thought of it again while getting ready to travel to the South a few weeks ago. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHER Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 1 file . Edit. Edition Notes Originally published, London , Methuen, 1962. Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit (1959). August 12, 2004 issue Link Copied! Down There on a Visit. There are no reviews yet. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Down there on a visit This edition was published in 1974 by White Lion Publishers in London (etc.). For years now I’ve been looking at a photograph Walker Evans took in the summer of 1936 in the South. For print-disabled users. It is now widely regarded as … Personal, Secret Journey. Down There on a Visit. Title: Down There on a Visit Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-85617-454-8 / 978-0-85617-454-4 (UK edition) Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd 5 Favorites . Down There on a Visit: A Novel (FSG Classics series) by Christopher Isherwood. Charles Simic. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. 318 pp. Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. 14 day loan required to access EPUB and PDF files. $4.75. Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts Isherwood's life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a … Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com. by Christopher Isherwood. Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts Isherwood's life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a … Be the first one to write a review. 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