{"product_id":"kathleen-and-frank-christopher-isherwood-9780374180973","title":"Kathleen and Frank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathleen and Frank\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir story is told through letters and Kathleen's diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change-- Queen Victoria's funeral, Bl riot's flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland--the period that shaped Isherwood himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents' lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Isherwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374180970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374180973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Christopher Isherwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980906332415,"sku":"9780374180973","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6313b5c8-8c03-49a2-af08-6a37cbc0b8f0.jpg?v=1683252579","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kathleen-and-frank-christopher-isherwood-9780374180973","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}