A Single Man (original Movie of the Same Name Starring Colin Firth)
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About This Novel
Directed by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, the original novel of the movie "A Single Man"; the twenty-four hours after a single man loses his beloved; a farewell letter to a profound love, a different minority declaration. "A Single Man" is the masterpiece of the famous British-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009 and won multiple international awards. The novel describes in detail the life of a single man who has lost his beloved in Los Angeles in 1962. The male protagonist George is a university professor. On the one hand, he is immersed in the pain of losing his lover. On the other hand, he scans the surroundings with a gaze as cold as a camera, pretending that everything is normal, going to work, teaching, attending banquets, visiting patients, and chatting up like a zombie. He plays the role of a decent "normal person", but there is already a turmoil in his heart. Isherwood uses a restrained yet playful writing style to outline the conservative, hypocritical, and suffocating atmosphere of American society in the early 1960s. He writes about people's suppressed emotions due to solidified social roles, the rupture between the inner and the outer world, especially the inner world of marginalized groups who are not accepted by society.
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