Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader

Best known forThe Berlin Stories--the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musicalCabaret--Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement.Where Joy Residesis the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings.

This collection presents two complete novels, Prater VioletandA Single Man; episodes from three other novels,Goodbye to Berlin, Down There on a Visit, and Lions and Shadows; along with excerpts from Isherwood's nonfiction works,Exhumations, Kathleen and Frank, andMy Guru and His Disciple.