Down There on a Visit

✍ Scribed by Christopher Isherwood

• Book ID: 110949180
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 275 KB
• Series: FSG Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466853331
• ASIN: B00F8G6F9Q

✦ Synopsis

Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place--Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the time period of the Berlin Stories), the Greek Isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s and California in 1940--this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood's fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality and self-fulfillment.
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 serious involvement with Eastern mysticism.