Christopher Isherwood - Kathleen and Frank The Autobiography of
| Schrijver: | Christopher Isherwood |
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| Titel: | Kathleen and Frank The Autobiography of a Family |
| ISBN: | 9780374180973 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Bijzonderheden: | Ramsj, 2015, Paperback, 528p |
| Prijs: | € 14,95 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I \n\nIt is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. \n\nTheir story is told through letters and Kathleen's diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change- Queen Victoria's funeral, Blériot's flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland-the period that shaped Isherwood himself. \n\nAs a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents' lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern.
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