A Word Child
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
After years of obscurity in a Bayswater flat, Oxford graduate Hilary Burde ha the opportunity to atone for a grievous offense which he committed twenty ye earlier.
After years of obscurity in a Bayswater flat, Oxford graduate Hilary Burde ha the opportunity to atone for a grievous offense which he committed twenty ye earlier.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140081534 (0140081534)
Publish date: January 6th 1987
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
”What a stupid coagulated mass of indistinguishable guilt and misery I had become. How perfectly futile all my sufferings had been. If only I could separate out that awful mixture of sin and pain, if I could only even a for a short time, even for a moment, suffer purely without the burden of resentm...
As some of the critics say, Iris Murdoch has a very powerful way in writing. She's not afraid to make some afirmations about certain things in life. I really, really enjoyed the description in this book. Especially the descripton of people, it's so accurate, I couldn't believe it! The guilt, the env...
Hilary, a deprived and difficult boy, is saved by a school master who nurtures his love of language. He ends up at Oxford, but most of the novel is set almost 20 years later when he is still suffering the results of a disastrous incident that ended his Oxford days. More plot than a typical Murdoch n...
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