Down thereon a visit

Description:

Christopher Isherwood originally intended *Down There on a Visit* to be part of *The Lost*, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous *Berlin Stories*. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is a bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. *Down There on a Visit* is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.

subjects: Gay men,  Fiction in English,  British,  Fiction,  Interpersonal relations,  Sexuality,  Young men,  Friendship,  Travel,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  English fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, biographical,  Friendship, fiction,  Europe, fiction,  California, fiction,  Psychological fiction

Places: California,  Europe