{"product_id":"9781466853331","title":"Down There on a Visit: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA writer reflects on life, love, self-fulfillment and more as he travels the globe in this \"stunning\" novel by the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (Dorothy Parker).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This excellent novel . . . may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written. . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story.\" -Gerald Sykes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Published in 1962, \u003ci\u003eDown There on a Visit \u003c\/i\u003eis based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated \u003ci\u003eThe Berlin Stories. \u003c\/i\u003eIt is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46505560375537,"sku":"9781466853331","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781466853331_p0.jpg?v=1766598704","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466853331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}