Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were...
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Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were clouded by a long struggle with Alzheimer's before her passing in 1999.
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Birth date: July 15, 1919
Died: February 08, 1999
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(Original Review, 2002)“Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the wate...
This might officially be my last Iris Murdoch novel. As with Fitzgerald's short stories, there was a time when I loved Murdoch's novels but the last couple of times I've read her books, I didn't enjoy them much at all ... Granted, the messed up relationship games in A Severed Head did nothing to ...
I gave a lot of time to this book, both reading it and deferring my review while thinking about it. I normally write reviews within a day and just put down my first reactions and, despite the time taken, that is probably the only way I can review this book. My fantasy about Murdoch is this - that s...
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...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, epistolatory-diary-blog, nonfic-nov-2015, nonfiction, published-2015, radio-4 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 16 to 28, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pssb5Description: Throughout her life, Iris Murdoch wrote thousands of letters. M...
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