Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Author: Christopher Isherwood
“Mr Norris Changes Trains” finds Christopher Isherwood in his element–the decadent milieu of Berlin in the early thirties. Arthur Norris, an aged debauchee, maneuvers to profit from the deadly power struggle between the Communists and the Nazis–and the result is a beguiling, funny, and sometimes nerve-racking tale…..Read More
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