The Sea, The Sea

By: Iris Murdoch, Daisy Johnson (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 3 September 2019

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1978

Iris Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel – now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series. Six gorgeous editions of her best, funniest and most subversive novels published to mark her centenary.

'I saw a monster rising from the waves.'

Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs.

But then he meets his childhood sweetheart Hartley, and memories of her lovely, younger self crowd in – along with more recent lovers and friends – to disrupt his self-imposed exile. So instead of 'learning to be good', Charles proceeds to demonstrate how very bad he can be.

Industry Reviews

It isn't all brainy fantasising in Murdochland; there's wild swimming, appalling sandwiches, death, madness and sex. * Guardian *
How bloody good her novels are - how intelligent, how lucent, how divinely crazy. They're fun - I'd forgotten that -- Sarah Waters * Guardian *
Dazzlingly entertaining and inventive * The Times *
One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years... There are pages one races through to see what happens. She is a virtuoso at description * Daily Mail *
There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English...The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable * The Times *

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