{"product_id":"animals-hb-w9","title":"Christopher Isherwood: ANIMALS W9 [2013] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Hollywood. \u003ci\u003eThe Animals\u003c\/i\u003e provides a loving testimony of an extraordinary relationship that lasted until Chris's death in 1986 - and survived affairs (on both sides) and a thirty-year-age-gap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn romantic letters to one another, the couple created the private world of the Animals. Chris was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Don was the playful young white cat, Kitty. But Don needed to carve out his own identity - some of their longest sequences of letters were exchanged during his trips to London and New York, to pursue his career as an artist and to widen his emotional and sexual horizons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst the intimate domestic dramas, we learn of Isherwood's continuing literary success -the royalty cheques from \u003ci\u003eCabaret, \u003c\/i\u003ethe acclaim for his pioneering novel \u003ci\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e - and the bohemian whirl of Californian film suppers and beach life. Don, whose portraits of London theatreland were making his name, attends the world premiere of \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e with Truman Capote and afterwards dines with Deborah Kerr and the rest of the cast, spends weekends with Tennessee Williams, Cecil Beton, or the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and tours Egypt and Greece with a new love interest. But whatever happens in the outside world, Dobbin and Kitty always return to their 'Basket' and to each other. Candid, gossipy, exceptionally affectionate, \u003ci\u003eThe Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique interplay between two creative spirits, confident in their mutual devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isherwood, Christopher \u0026 Bachardy, Don","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44330508878114,"sku":"9780701186784","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/isherwood-christopher-bachardy-don-christopher-isherwood-animals-w9-2013-hardback-9780701186784-59200823984467.jpg?v=1727587025","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/animals-hb-w9","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}