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The Sandcastle
Iris Murdoch
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Description for The Sandcastle
Paperback. The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being.
Suddenly there is joy to be found in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?
‘One of her most haunting works... She is spectacularly enigmatic’ Philippa Gregory
‘An absolutely scintillating, slightly bizarre page-turner’ Daily Mail
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Product Details
Publisher
VINTAGE (RAND)
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099433583
SKU
V9780099433583
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About Iris Murdoch
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Sandcastle
Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour
The Times
Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century
Guardian
Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable
Raymond Mortimer
The Times
Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century
Guardian
Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable
Raymond Mortimer