- Published: 1 June 2001
- ISBN: 9780099285380
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $40.00
An Unofficial Rose
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- Published: 1 June 2001
- ISBN: 9780099285380
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $40.00
I suspect that when the intellectual map of our own times comes to be sketched out, Iris Murdoch will occupy a position analogous to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky... Murdoch writes better than anyone about the condition of being love: both the ecstatic joys of it and its capacity to turn otherwise decent individuals into monsters of selfishness and cruelty... Her vision of the world is heart-rending, but ultimately celebratory
A N Wilson
Manipulating masterfully, Miss Murdoch turns out a deft three-in-one book: a sort of combined superior soap opera… a British novel of sensibility, and philosophical inquiry into reality
Time