An Unofficial Rose
$32.87
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2001
Summary
A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love
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. Impel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009928538X |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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“One feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist.” –Sunday Times
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 * Time *
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 – A N Wilson
About The Author
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
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