The Memorial: Portrait of a Family

* Early Vintage copy - The memorial portrait of a family hardcover, just acceptable, nice reading -copy maroon boards -spine titling on spine and gold with black rectangle, dust jacket is missing, book has a previous owners name written in pencil, along with their name embossed into the first page pages are clean and unmarked oh, there's a certain amount of minutiae on its edges, and spine / top of the book itself was Sunned Slightly, grading older books can be quite subjective pictures provided for your review...Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet - portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin - t........The memorial: portrait of a family Author - Christopher Isherwood/ Publisher - copyright, 1946- New Directions, Norfolk Connecticut, hardcover no dust jacket, 1946-294 pages - Subjects - Families,Gay men.......Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit........ Memorial 5757 HC ROSE WB 3