The Black Prince
by Murdoch, Iris:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0701119241
- ISBN 13
- 9780701119249
- Seller
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Synopsis
It is witty and wise and provocative...brilliantly good' Evening StandardA story about being in love The Black Prince is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involuted plot, and a meditation on the nature of art and love and the deity who rules over both. Bradley Pearson, its narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Encompassed by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother and a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, together with Baffin's restless wife and youthful daughter - Bradley attempts escape. His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a shifting perspective on all that has gone before.
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- Bookseller
- Book Fossicker (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24251
- Title
- The Black Prince
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701119241
- ISBN 13
- 9780701119249
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus 1973 1st edition
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1973
- Keywords
- fiction Murdoch,Iris 1st ed. literature 0701119241
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