A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

PLEASE NOTE! FOR THIS MEETING, WE WILL BE MEETING AT THE IMPERIAL IN ERSKINEVILLE!

Meeting at 7.00pm, Thursday June 12, upstairs at the Imperial Hotel, 35 Erskineville Road, we will be discussing Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man (1964).

Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man follows a day in the life of George, a middle-aged English professor living in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. Grieving the death of his partner Jim, George navigates the routines of an ordinary day while internally confronting loneliness, loss, and the quiet resilience it takes to go on living. With elegant prose and emotional restraint, Isherwood offers a quietly radical portrayal of gay life at a time when such stories were rarely told.

Hard copies available from The Bookshop, 207 Oxford St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. Also Kindle and Amazon for about $16. Easily available through local libraries. Or send me an email at dalemills (at) cantab.net for a free PDF. A movie adaptation can be found on youtube, staring Colin Firth.

The Imperial Hotel is famous as one of the oldest gay pubs in Sydney. We will be meeting upstairs in the 'Ruby Room.' Ask at the bar for details. This last minute change of venue is because the Shakespeare is closing for a couple of weeks for renovations. The Imperial is 5-10 mins walk from Erskineville and Newtown train stations.