Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/02/2001
ISBN: 9780099285380
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £10.99
After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/02/2001
ISBN: 9780099285380
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £10.99
Manipulating masterfully, Miss Murdoch turns out a deft three-in-one book: a sort of combined superior soap opera… a British novel of sensibility, and philosophical inquiry into reality
I suspect that when the intellectual map of our own times comes to be sketched out, Iris Murdoch will occupy a position analogous to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky... Murdoch writes better than anyone about the condition of being love: both the ecstatic joys of it and its capacity to turn otherwise decent individuals into monsters of selfishness and cruelty... Her vision of the world is heart-rending, but ultimately celebratory