An Accidental Man
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101495858 (1101495855)
Publish date: March 1st 1988
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
"An Accidental Man" is the first book I've read by Iris Murdoch, and it exceeded my expectations enormously. The plot by itself was structured well, but I think the most impressive aspect of this novel was the character development. In less than four hundred pages, Murdoch involves a wide "menagerie...
A complex book with many characters, not one of whom is both sane and likeable, and many who are neither! There is no single main character or even a main plot, yet lots happens (which makes you keep reading), but in some ways, nothing does (which makes it frustrating).An odd mixture of conventional...