{"product_id":"memorial-9780374533465","title":"Memorial","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's \u003ci\u003eThe Memorial \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, \u003ci\u003eThe Memorial \u003c\/i\u003eis the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Isherwood\u003c\/b\u003e (1904-1986) was born in Manchester, England, and lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books. FSG Classics presents some of his finest work, including the novels \u003ci\u003ePrater Violet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Meeting by the River\u003c\/i\u003e; the semi-autobiographical \u003ci\u003eLions and Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eChristopher and His Kind\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460153970962,"sku":"9780374533465","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3d8d5648-3a0a-4496-abcb-66ce01496359.jpg?v=1730031154","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memorial-9780374533465","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}