{"product_id":"my-guru-and-his-disciple-9781250254870","title":"My Guru and His Disciple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Guru and His Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at MGM, intellectual sparring sessions with Berthold Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center, a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety, and the pious drudgery of translating (in collaboration with the Swami) the Bhagavad-Gita. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeldom has a single man been owed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline; out of the passionate dialectic between these drives, \u003ci\u003eMy Guru and His Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e has been written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Isherwood\u003c\/b\u003e (1902-1986) was born outside of 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":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50462363123986,"sku":"9781250254870","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b5057dd-80c2-40a8-87b6-420f0d6b2aef.jpg?v=1730085924","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-guru-and-his-disciple-9781250254870","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}