num_pages: 320
description: Christopher Isherwood originally intended Down There on a Visit to be part of The Lost, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin Stories. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is a bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.
language: English
title: Down There on a Visit
titlecomplete: Down There on a Visit
genres: 20th Century, LGBT, Novels, Gay, Queer, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Gay Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 839
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press