{"product_id":"lost-years-by-christopher-isherwood-9780099283249","title":"Lost Years","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis writing soon becomes addictive as one self-disclosure follows another. What better recommendation for a diary could there be?\u003c\/em\u003e - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood. By 1945, however, he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead, he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and drinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking back from the 1970s, Isherwood recreated these years from personal memories to form a remarkably honest mixture of private and social history in \u003cem\u003eLost Years\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403703763180,"sku":"9780099283249","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71BjNStfA3L._SL1500.jpg?v=1773864005","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lost-years-by-christopher-isherwood-9780099283249","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}