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A review by iancann
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
4.0
A wonderful book, this explores love, grief and what it is to be and feel alive, all in a sharply packaged 152 pages - Isherwood doesn't waste a single word or use more than is exactly necessary.
It's interesting to read this having already watched the splendid movie - they're very different yet also rather alike beasts - the movie seems to hew off the dark rough edges that I suppose you can only capture through a book's insight in a character's inner workings and strips out the anger and rage that George feels at times, and repackages it in a different manner, but still when George is with Kenny you get that same sense of light and love returning, that maybe he has something after Jim afterall.
All in all then, thumbs properly up for this one.
It's interesting to read this having already watched the splendid movie - they're very different yet also rather alike beasts - the movie seems to hew off the dark rough edges that I suppose you can only capture through a book's insight in a character's inner workings and strips out the anger and rage that George feels at times, and repackages it in a different manner, but still when George is with Kenny you get that same sense of light and love returning, that maybe he has something after Jim afterall.
All in all then, thumbs properly up for this one.