(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 ...
Beschreibung Martin liebt seine wunderschöne Ehefrau über alles und ist mit ihrer Beziehung überglücklich. Vollkommen macht sein Glück die aufregende Zeit mit seiner Geliebten. Doch als Martin überraschenderweise von seiner Frau verlassen wird, gerät Martin ins schwanken und er muss seine Emotione...
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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