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The Sea, The Sea

Iris Murdoch

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Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing

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EAN: 9780099560999
Published: 1 Mar 2012

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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.

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There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English...The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable
- The Times

Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive
- The Times

Funny and poignant and arguably Murdoch's finest hour
- Daily Express

A fantastic feat of imagination as well as a marvellous sustained piece of writing
- Vogue

An enjoyable, thought-provoking and unforgettable novel
- Daily Mail

My favourite novel
- The Week

One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years...There are pages one races through to see what happens.She is a virtuoso at description
- Daily Mail

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Iris Murdoch was a writer and philosopher. She was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to school in Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. She later became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999. Her husband John Bayley has written a bestselling memoir of his life with her called Iris and a major film based on this was released in 2001.