Christopher Isherwood
"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwoodâ€™s spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwoodâ€™s own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline. . . . In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader."Â  Edmund White, New York Times Book Review,"This book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness." Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman,A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904â€“1986) is the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial,Â  Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.
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My Guru And His Disciple