The Sandcastle - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099433583 ISBN 13 : 9780099433583

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2003

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.

Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992); other philosophical writings, including 'The Sovereignty of Good' (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

Quatrième de couverture :

'Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour' The Times

The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and a complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic and art. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The headmaster, himself enchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a 'great love' be purchased at too high a price?

See also: A Severed Head

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099433583
• ISBN 13: 9780099433583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336