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The Condor and the Cows

The Condor and the Cows

by Christopher Isherwood (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYER In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Condor and the Cows is Isherwood's unsentimental and wonderfully rich account of that journey, during which he bumped into a handful of old acquaintances on a brand-new continent.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 23 May 2013
ISBN 10: 0099561182
ISBN 13: 9780099561187
Book Overview: First published in 1949, this is a lively memoir of Isherwood's South American travels

Media Reviews
Entertaining * Boston Globe *
Delightful * New York Times *
Intelligent and sensitive * Good Book Guide *
Author Bio
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.