![]() For this reason he is emotionally isolated, another theme that is explored in the novel.Ĭhristopher Isherwood was an English-American novelist who passed away at the age of eighty-two in 1986. The novel also deals with many difficult topics, the chief of which is homosexuality and the way in which homosexuals were made to hide their identity and their sexual orientation, especially in the Britain that George grew up in where he could have been arrested and imprisoned just for being gay. George plans on killing himself but over the course of the day comes into contact with a number of people who gradually change the way he feels about the world, and his perception of it. George is middle-aged and emotionally remote, still mourning the loss of his lover one year previously. The novel is set in Southern California during 1962 and tells the story of George, a British professor working at a university in Los Angeles. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī Single Man is a novel by English-American author Christopher Isherwood written in 1964. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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