“ In several respects this is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic ”
Stephen Spender, New Republic
“ This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written. A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story ”
New York Times
“ Few writers have so unsparingly scrutinized their worlds. Down There on a Visit is outrageous, bitter, bleak, angry, wry, revealing, infuriating, and at times marvellously comic. An offbeat classic ”
Saturday Review
“ A bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers. ”
Powells.com
“ That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands ”
Somerset W. Maugham
Paperback
9780099561088
January 16, 2013
Vintage Classics
368 pages
EBook
9781446468906
November 1, 2012
Vintage Digital
368 pages
