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raymond_murphy 's review for:
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
This was an excellent novel. And, as a bonus prize, I now feel off the hook from ever even having to attempt to read "Ulysses."
Apparently Edmund White claims "A Single Man" as the first modern gay lit. And I would have to agree. This fits right in with every Violet Quill book I have ever read.
More importantly, the prose is exquisitely beautiful and full of insights. And as another bonus, it is sort of a love letter to mid-century So Cal (even if it does protest some aspects of the then dawning era).
I have read the reviews of the movie and after reading this book have little desire I have reservations about seeing it (despite a love of Julieanne). A 150 page novel about one day in a man's life, filled mostly with his own thoughts, can't possibly be translated to the screen and maintain the magic this work conjures.
Click here for an excellent review of the novel (far better than mine) by another favorite author, Christopher Bram: http://out.com/detail.asp?id=26315
Apparently Edmund White claims "A Single Man" as the first modern gay lit. And I would have to agree. This fits right in with every Violet Quill book I have ever read.
More importantly, the prose is exquisitely beautiful and full of insights. And as another bonus, it is sort of a love letter to mid-century So Cal (even if it does protest some aspects of the then dawning era).
I have read the reviews of the movie and after reading this book have little desire I have reservations about seeing it (despite a love of Julieanne). A 150 page novel about one day in a man's life, filled mostly with his own thoughts, can't possibly be translated to the screen and maintain the magic this work conjures.
Click here for an excellent review of the novel (far better than mine) by another favorite author, Christopher Bram: http://out.com/detail.asp?id=26315