The Memorial: Portrait of a Family Reprint edition

Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood?s The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolutionof a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood,the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn betweenhis desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrificebefore dying in the war, and his envy of his father?s roguishfriend who survived the war and afterward threw himself intogay life.

Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.