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The Italian Girl

by: Iris Murdoch (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780140025590 (0140025596)

Publish date: February 22nd 1979

Publisher: Penguin

Pages no: 176

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Mystery

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What a wonderful novel! Such complicated characters living in such a twisted reality yet, amidst all the chaos and damage, one funeral, one accidental death, a myriad of countless betrayals and misunderstands, and you still manage to come away with an incredible calm and peaceful contentment upon f...

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http://surreysmum.booklikes.com A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books 4.0 The Italian Girl (Vintage Classics)

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[These notes were made in 1987:]. This is an early Murdoch, and less complex than some I have read, but it still has those curiously labyrinthine patterns of human relationships. In this case, a first-person narrator, Edmund, arrives back to be part of a family he has left behind. The occasion is ...

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