The world in the evening
By: Christopher Isherwood.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Description: "Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair with a younger man during a visit to the Canary Islands. The world traveler comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland."--BOOK JACKET.