num_pages: 160
description: In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality ,and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.
language: English
title: Single Man
titlecomplete: Single Man
characters: Charley, Kenny Potter, George Falconer, Jim
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Gay, Literary Fiction, Novels, British Literature, Literature, Classics, 20th Century
ratings_count: 31951
places: California, Los Angeles, California
publisher: Random House UK