Picador Modern Classics A Single Man, (Paperback)

from whitewavedarling

Quiet and beautifully written, this novel is a quick read. It's a careful and believable character study, and worth a look. I read this quickly, and I suspect that the work is most powerful when read in the space of only a day or two as I wandered through it, as opposed to being spread over multi...

from bookmaven404

A Single Man Christopher Isherwood Having recently seen the Tom Ford film of this book, I was delighted when the note from Librarything.com dropped into my email thingummy, informing me that I'd scored a ARC copy of the book. I was not so delighted when the promised book arrived, as a book on CD....

from davros63au

After reading a string of novels with 'page turning' plots, it was a pleasure to ponder the inner most thoughts of George, a university lecturer dealing with the death of his partner. Isherwood expertly gives us access to George's feelings and observations and I was able to experience what that s...

from Whisper1

This is a hauntingly beautiful book portraying one day in the life of 58 year old George. Written in stream-of-consciousness, the reader is privy to George's unrelenting struggle to cope after losing his lover of 16 years. Though it has been a year since Jim died, George finds each day difficult,...

from siafl

Graceful and beautiful prose. Quick but deep. I am not sure I understood it all, however. The character Charlotte was a bit of an annoyance for me, which I suppose was the point. On the other hand I might have read it too quickly. Very well-crafted visuals and imagery throughout, which I am glad ...