A Single Man
A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
by Christopher Isherwood
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appears in Short, About Los Angeles, and Fiction.
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middleaged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twentyfour hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, ...
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appears in Short, About Los Angeles, and Fiction.
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