{"product_id":"9780374180973","title":"Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathleen and Frank\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher’s father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir story is told through letters and Kathleen’s diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change— Queen Victoria’s funeral, Blériot’s flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland—the period that shaped Isherwood himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents’ lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48046515978480,"sku":"9780374180973","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374180973_p0.jpg?v=1763690683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374180973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}