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The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner

The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner - Paperback

by Iris Murdoch
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Availability:In StockContributor:Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie (Introduction by)Series:Penguin Twentieth Century ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2001-03-01Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141186160ISBN-10:014118616XUPC:9780141186160Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Sea StoriesSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCGN74YZHY
Winner of the Booker Prize--a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141186160ISBN-10:014118616XUPC:9780141186160Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Sea StoriesSize:7.60 x 5.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCGN74YZHY
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. She herself was also the recipient of many esteemed awards: Dame of the Order of the British Empire, the Royal Society of Literature's Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club's (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times' (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Mary Kinzie is the author of Ghost Ship and The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose.
Publisher: Penguin Group

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Iris Murdoch

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