A Fairly Honourable Defeat
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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Published:
25 April, 2002
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Description
Everyone is thinking about Julius King.
For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.
'The most important novelist writing in my time' A. S. Byatt
‘Murdoch’s art was expansive, non-autobiographical and insistently inventive’
Daily Telegraph
‘Above all, she was a consummate story-teller, prodigiously inventive and generous’
Independent
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099285335 |
| ISBN10 | 0099285339 |
| Number Of Pages | 464 |
| Item Weight | 320 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
The most important novelist writing in my time * A.S. Byatt *
A distinguished novelist of a very rare kind * Kingsley Amis *
Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist * Sunday Times *
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Author's Bio
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.