A Word Child
Iris Murdoch author Ray Monk editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:4th Apr '02
£10.99
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Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption
Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job.
Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job.
When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.
Deeply moving and entertaining * New York Times *
The readability of a novel like A Word Child is almost appallingly powerful * Independent *
It would be difficult to speak too highly of the extraordinary skill and confidence here displayed -- Frank Kermode
From the beginning of her career, Iris Murdoch seemed to enlarge the possibilities in front of the English novel. She was a writer of wonderful, and sometimes rather alarming idiosyncrasy... Hers was a liberating and a generous imagination * Independent *
ISBN: 9780099429128
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 287g
416 pages