Memorial
Subtitle: Portrait of a Family
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780374533465
Subjects: Fiction, family life, general
Description: Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's "The Memorial" is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life.