The Way it was with MeGerald Hamilton also talks about his friendship with Christopher Isherwood, who based his character, Norris, on Hamilton. The latter admits that there is much of me in the character of Mr. Norris but not, I hasten to say, in the sex life of that worthy. |
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Acknowledgements | 6 |
TWO China the Land of My Birth | 15 |
THREE Memories of Imperial Russia | 27 |
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