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Isherwood's recipe for a gay old time

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20000619
Author:MARK SANDERSON

MARK SANDERSON LOST YEARS: A Memoir 1945-51 by Christopher Isherwood edited by Katherine Bucknell (Chatto, 25)

CHRISTOPHER Marlowe believed the good life depended on a plentiful supply of three commodities: "baccy, boys and booze". Christopher Isherwood also smoked but, on the evidence of this memoir, his recipe for a gay old time was books, boys and booze.

A more accurate title would have been Lust Years. If talk of "big firm, hotly inviting buttocks" doesn't blow up your balloon, you might as well stop right here. As TV newsreaders almost say, "if you don't want to know the whore, look ...

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