Lions and Shadows

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London s Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood s contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion...