Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers.

Beschreibung

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDE

When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions.

Rezension

"Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive" Dame Judi Dench The Times

Klappentext

A reissue of the Booker Prize winning novel, with an introduction by John Burnside. 'A fantastic feat of imagination as well as a marvellous sustained piece of writing' "Vogue"