Flight from the Enchanter
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670318209 (0670318205)
Publish date: January 1st 1956
Publisher: Viking Books
Edition language: English
bookshelves: paper-read, published-1956, winter-20152016, lit-richer, lit-richer-jan-2016, under-1000-ratings, tragedy Read from December 16, 2015 to January 17, 2016 Description: Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fi...
Interesting 50s office sexual politics: secretaries slowly and carefully getting promoted and taking over, unchallenged. Cold war influences re the sinister aspect of central/eastern Europe, plus a right-of-passage novel regarding one character.
[These notes were made in 1984:]. As usual with Murdoch, the characters are far more comprehensible than the plot, which ends on a note of despairing irresolution just as we are getting ready for our old marriage-at-the-end-of-the-book pattern. Mischa, the central enigma, plays with the lives of sm...
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