By Christopher Isherwood
On a educate to Berlin in overdue 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman donning a slightly visible wig and worried approximately generating his passport on the frontier. So starts a friendship carried out within the seedier quarters of town, the place Norris runs a doubtful import-export company and lives in excited worry of his bullying secretary, his collectors, and his dominatrix female friend, Anni. because the world wide fiscal melancholy strangles the loads and the Communists make a determined stand opposed to Fascism and conflict, Norris sells himself as political orator, secret agent, and double agent. He additionally sells his neighbors. Like its spouse novel, Goodbye to Berlin, Mr Norris adjustments Trains bargains unforgettable characters suffering within the vortex because the Nazis upward thrust to strength.
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Clause 28 had prohibited the "promotion" (or toleration) of same-sex lives, and in the process had inadvertently helped mobilize and unite gay communities. While race and immigration had been high on the political agenda during the 1960s, by the 1980s, sexual issues had been added to it. One critical issue emerged not as a result of the Thatcher administration, although it would help fuel the moral agendas of the new right conservatives. The critical issue was AIDS—acquired immune deficiency syndrome and HIV—human immuno-deficiency virus.
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