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A Single Man
First edition cover
Author(s)	Christopher Isherwood
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Gay novel
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	186 pp
OCLC Number	171466

A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood.

Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged, gay Englishman who is a professor at a Los Angeles university.

Edmund White called A Single Man "one of the first and best novels of the modern Gay Liberation movement."^[1]

In 2009, fashion designer Tom Ford directed a film adaptation of the novel. The film, starring Colin Firth as George, premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. It was nominated for the Golden Lion and Firth won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor.^[2] It received three Golden Globes nominations and an Academy Award nomination.

Contents

1 Characters
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

Characters

George
Jim
Mr. Strunk
Mrs. Strunk
Mr. Garfein
Mrs. Garfein
Charlotte
Kenny Potter
Lois

Notes

^ White, "Pool in Rocks by the Sea", 347.
^ "66th Venice International Film Festival Official Awards". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2009. http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/premi/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.

References

White, Edmund. "Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy." Artforum, February 1992. Reprinted in The Burning Library: Essays. Vintage, 1995, 345-349.

External links

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Novels	All the Conspirators (1928) The Memorial (1932) Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) Sally Bowles (1937) Goodbye to Berlin (1939) Prater Violet (1945) The Berlin Stories (1945) The World in the Evening (1954) Down There on a Visit (1962) A Single Man (1964) A Meeting by the River (1967) The Mortmere Stories (1994, with Edward Upward)

Plays (with W. H. Auden)	The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) The Ascent of F6 (1937 play; 1938 film) On the Frontier (1938)

Memoirs and diaries	Lions and Shadows (1938) Kathleen and Frank (1971) Christopher and His Kind (1976) Diaries: 1939–1960 (1996) Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951 (2000) Kathleen and Christopher (2005)

Travel writings	Journey to a War (1939, with W. H. Auden) The Condor and the Cows (1949)

Vedanta	Vedanta and the West (1943—1969) What Vedanta Means to Me (1951) An Approach to Vedanta (1963) Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965) Essentials of Vedanta (1969) My Guru and His Disciple (1980)

Screenplays	Little Friend (1934) Forever and a Day (1943) Adventure in Baltimore (1949; story) Rage in Heaven (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) Diane (1956) The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)

Adaptations	I Am a Camera (1951 play) I Am a Camera (1955 film) Cabaret (1966 musical) Cabaret (1972 film) A Single Man (2009) Christopher and His Kind (2011)

Miscellaneous writings	Exhumations (1966) Frankenstein: The True Story (1973, with Don Bachardy) October (1980, with Don Bachardy) Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader (1989) Jacob's Hands: A Fable (1997, with Aldous Huxley) Isherwood on Writing (2007)

Other	Don Bachardy Sally Bowles (fictional character) Vedanta Society of Southern California Chris & Don (2008)

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