{"product_id":"down-there-on-a-visit-9780374533809","title":"Down There on a Visit","description":"\u003cp\u003eBremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 1962, \u003ci\u003eDown There on a Visit \u003c\/i\u003eis based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated \u003ci\u003eThe Berlin Stories. \u003c\/i\u003eIt is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523557200146,"sku":"9780374533809","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c888ed5-39ba-4012-b3fa-f61bf893ce6c.jpg?v=1731152035","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/down-there-on-a-visit-9780374533809","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}