Single Man

Single ManWhen Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider. Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in

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the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul

whose romantic involvement with a young man at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a freer life

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swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war

there’s the baby’s father

before even graduating college

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