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Iris: a memoir of Iris Murdoch

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#88994
Titel	Iris: a memoir of Iris Murdoch
Auteur	Bayley, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Abacus, London
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0349112150
ISBN13	9780349112152
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	John Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage to the great novelist Iris Murdoch takes us on a journey, from their love affair's comically inauspicious beginnings in the Oxford of the early fifties (Bayley courted Iris on account of her unchallenging plain looks and their first date consisted of a revolting dinner followed by a disastrous dance when Iris sprained her ankle) to its slow and painful closure when the onset of Alzheimer's more than forty years later, which should be devastating. Yet as Bayley charts the gradual dissolution of Iris's remarkable intellect side by side with the detail of their gloriously eccentric and profoundly satisfying life together, what emerges is the complex portrait of an enigmatic and brilliant woman and of a marriage of quite extraordinary, unfo... (Lees verder)rced happiness, and some remarkable insight into the richly mysterious symbolism of Iris Murdoch's novels. Wry, intelligent, and unexpectedly hilarious, IRIS is an unforgettable inquiry into the nature of love and identity and a uniquely moving articulation of loss.
Pagina's	294
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 5,00

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