The Black Prince
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Georgetown, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
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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Details
- Seller
- Laura Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 037305
- Title
- The Black Prince
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Book Club
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Black Prince
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Laura Books
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