Le dilemme de Jackson
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070744947 (2070744949)
Publish date: November 7th 2001
Publisher: Gallimard
Pages no: 359
Edition language: French
Even though this was written as Murdoch's light was fading, it's still better than most of today's author's writing under the heading literary fiction. Flawed, occasionally brilliant. Perhaps not a fitting epitaph, but deserves a place on the shelf.
Her last book (published in '95). Apparently set in modern times (eg computers self-consciously mentioned in passing), but very old fashioned feel. A bride disappears on the eve of her wedding, leaving friends and family devastated and perplexed, with hurt and mysteries in their own past to face up ...