A Word Child - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140081534 ISBN 13 : 9780140081534

Editeur : Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

After years of obscurity in a Bayswater flat, Oxford graduate Hilary Burde ha the opportunity to atone for a grievous offense which he committed twenty ye earlier.

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).

Revue de presse

"Deeply moving and entertaining" (New York Times)

"The readability of a novel like A Word Child is almost appallingly powerful" (Independent)

"It would be difficult to speak too highly of the extraordinary skill and confidence here displayed" (Frank Kermode)

"From the beginning of her career, Iris Murdoch seemed to enlarge the possibilities in front of the English novel. She was a writer of wonderful, and sometimes rather alarming idiosyncrasy... Hers was a liberating and a generous imagination" (Independent)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140081534
• ISBN 13: 9780140081534
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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