Down There on a Visit - Softcover

"In several respects this is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic." --Stephen Spender, "The New Republic

""This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story." --"The New York Times Book Review

""Few writers have so unsparingly scrutinized their worlds. "Down There on a Visit" is outrageous, bitter, bleak, angry, wry, revealing, infuriating, and at times marvelously comic . . . An offbeat classic." --"Saturday Review"

"Stunning. I can think of no better word." --Dorothy Parker, "Esquire"

"This is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic." --Stephen Spender, "The New Republic"

"This excellent novel . . . may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story." --Gerald Sykes, "The New York Times"

"This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels." --Cyril Connolly, "The Times" (London)

Stunning. I can think of no better word. "Dorothy Parker, Esquire"

This is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic. "Stephen Spender, The New Republic"

This excellent novel . . . may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story. "Gerald Sykes, The New York Times"

This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels. "Cyril Connolly, The Times (London)""

"Stunning. I can think of no better word." --Dorothy Parker, Esquire

"This is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic." --Stephen Spender, The New Republic

"This excellent novel . . . may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story." --Gerald Sykes, The New York Times

"This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels." --Cyril Connolly, The Times (London)

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was born outside Manchester, England. He lived in

Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and emigrated from Europe to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books.