Berlin Stories The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin

"...[T]here is something about Christopher Isherwood's work that inspires respect and steady affection for the man, even when he chooses to cross the California bridge of sighs between a swami like Gerald Hard and the word factories of Culver City...Isherwood is a real novelist, a real minor novelist...It is a great distinction to be a minor novelist today; it is much more difficult than to imitate the great novelists...He writes his language--it is not always our language--with the tonal exactitude and humorous economy of a man who can be conventional, so distinct is his verbal inheritance. Isherwood's writing has the music of the old English fineness in it. It never presses or stammers; its correctness is implicit in its wit and it is always headed for the comic; he is a man who touches his language with affectionate brush strokes in exile.Isherwood, Christopher is the author of 'Berlin Stories The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin' with ISBN 9780811200707 and ISBN 0811200701.