The Sacred And Profane Love Machine
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2003
Summary
Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour’s difficulties and his neighbour’s wife appear to be his only consolations after all.
The neighbour, Blaise Gavender, is an amateur psychotherapist who has seen through himself. Has Blaise the courage to change his life and become an honest man…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099433576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099433575 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch, Elaine Feinstein |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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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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