The Time of the Angels - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586045929 ISBN 13 : 9780586045923

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1978

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

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY RICHARD HOLLOWAY

'Certainly her best; wittier, more lyrical, more deeply felt than ever before. She is an enchantress' Sunday Times

Carel is rector of a City church in ruins, destroyed during the war. In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth, and their West Indian servant, Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, co-guardian with him of Elizabeth, tires to make contact with Carel but is constantly rebuffed.
These seven characters go through a dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that God is dead, and this is the time of the angels.

See also: The Bell

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0586045929
• ISBN 13: 9780586045923
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible