All the Conspirators - Softcover
Parents and children are still just as deadly but they are no longer invariably polite and restrained, and there are no longer (as Cyril Connolly once put it) "atrocities witnessed at tea in the drawing-room."
Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators, in 1926; it was published in England two years later. In his introduction to the first American edition (published by New Directions in 1958), the author explained: "[All the Conspirators] records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’" In many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a "period piece" growing out of a particular historical situation––clashes between parents and children are still just as deadly but they are no longer invariably polite and restrained, and there are no longer (as Cyril Connolly once put it) "atrocities witnessed at tea in the drawing-room." But Isherwood's singular perceptions of the older generation holding on and the younger trying to wrench free are as valid today as they were half a century ago."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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"The best prose writer in English." - Gore Vidal
"This first novel is a key to Isherwood and the twenties. It is as mature as readable, as concentrated as anything he has written since." - Cyril Connolly
In the Kensington of the 1920s - silver frames, inlaid bureaux, charming sitting-rooms - the 'conspirators', Philip and Joan, fight to throw off the oppressive power of their mother.
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0811207250
- ISBN 13 9780811207256
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages255
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