Winner of the Booker Prize 1978
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre,he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions.
With an introduction by John Burnside.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099284093Number of pages: 560Weight: 383 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive.'- The Times
'One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years... There are pages one races through to see what happens. She is a virtuoso at description.'- Daily Mail
'She was a brilliantly clever woman.'- Dame Judi Dench
'There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English...The power of her imaginative vision,her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable.'- The Times
'A fabulous novel...funny and poignant and is arguably Murdoch's finest hour.'- Gary Kemp,Daily Express
Iris Murdoch
One of the most outstanding British authors of the twentieth century,Iris Murdoch was a writer of multi-layered novels,often of a strong philosophical and psychological bent. Her best known work includes The Bell,Under the Net and The Sea,The Sea.
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