Bucknell goes beyond the diaries, gathering up the many strands of the writer’s personal and public lives to create a nuanced, masterful portrait of a brilliant, insecure, charismatic seeker of artistic truth and personal freedom ... As Bucknell’s definitive wide-screen biography shows us, Isherwood’s struggles were transmuted into lyrical fiction that never stopped questioning what it meant to be a man in the 20th century, and thus his art became our gift.
As a guardian of his eternal flame, Bucknell does tiptoe around some of the less noble aspects of the life ... Bucknell will not be shucked so easily. Stone by stone, she’s built up a gritty, gorgeous monument to a curiously indelible 20th-century figure.
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