Down There on a Visit Plays an adolescent boy tormented by

an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal

The Art of Starving

and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing

Cherr e Moraga

sensuality

Down There on a Visit Plays an adolescent boy tormented byBremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?