All the Conspirators (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

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9780811225120: All the Conspirators (New Directions Paperbook)

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ISBN 10: 0811225127 ISBN 13: 9780811225120

Publisher: New Directions, 2016

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A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values

Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” 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 with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

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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

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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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