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Title: The Sea, the Sea (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie ISBN: 0-14-118616-X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything you've heard is true
Comment: First of all, I'm not 3, I'm 31, but the "how old are you?" seems to stop at 12.
This really is one of those books that just swallows you up. The sheer tangibility of the details, the observation, and above all the immensely impressive way that the "fabulous" or "occult" is woven into the tale make this impossible to resist. It's long haul, but you don't begrudge a page. The character of the cousin, James, seems to me one of the most tantalising and fascinating characters in modern literature. The narrator's own egotism and ignorance prevent him from seeing this too late. Some remarkable, perhaps impossible things are never fully explained, and that, my friends, is life. I've read this book three times in the last five years and I still get surprised by it. I still wonder that anyone can write this well. It's not the turns of phrase or any inbuilt sense of "importance", it's the magnetism of the story and the completeness of it. How many writers can REALLY fuse people, landscape, narrative, the elements and religious philosophy together like this. Precious few. Read this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Murdoch's Best
Comment: For my money, this is Iris Murdoch's best novel. Many of her recurring motifs are here: an interest in Buddhism and other things mystical, swimming, homosexuality, lots of food and drink, a love affair, deep and unfathomable matters of philosophy. But this is perhaps where she gets the mix right, or more right than anywhere else. The central love affair is compelling and moving, though perhaps a little far-fetched. The main male character is very amusing. The setting, though, is perhaps the joy of the book: a rugged seaside spot in the North of England where the sea is a churning blue-green cauldron, freezing cold and dangerous. Only the Brits would delight in bathing in such a place, as the characters do here. But of course they are right. Dame Iris loved such swimming holes. And they are exhilarating places. Not little chlorinated Californian puddles of warmth. The real sea. The Sea, The Sea. Great fun.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Story of Growth
Comment: I admit, the main character of The Sea, The Sea (Charles) is obnoxious and arrogant throughout the book. He behaves as a badly reared thirteen-year-old boy. However, the end of this book is so touching. He matures from acting like an immature boy to an elderly man -- reflecting on life, its lossess and illusions. I highly recommend. Angela Carter's Wise Children would make an excellent companion read.
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Title: The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0141186690 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Black Prince (Penguin Classics) by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0142180114 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0140020039 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1976 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Elegy for Iris by John Bayley ISBN: 0312421117 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books) by Iris Murdoch ISBN: 0140041117 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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