The Sandcastle

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires and a different dream of life. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. Zusammenfassung The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires and a different dream of life. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Murdoch
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2003
• EAN: 9780099433583
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943358-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classic Iris Murdoch Series; VINTAGE CLASSICS; Vintage Classic Iris Murdoch Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary