The Boston Globe, January 21st, 1997
THE DIARIES OF CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Volume One, 1939-1960 Edited by Catherine Bucknell Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins, 1,048 pp., $40 There are several good reasons for wanting to read all 1,048 pages of the first volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries. One of them is the pleasure all of us take in gossip. When he immigrated to America in 1939, Isherwood was already established in the literary world. Soon he joined the community of expatriate artists in Hollywood. He was a social creature who needed to know everything that was going on and everyone who was important. His circle of ac...
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