495 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2001 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-118616-0
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reviewed The sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

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I can't usually stomach books with no likable characters in them. I think it's a testament to Iris Murdoch's skill as a writer that this one kept reeling me in.

I'm not sure quite how to summarise a book like this. The plot is fairly simple--and could be covered by a book a tenth as long--but Murdoch uses it more to develop the protagonist's character and frame her own meditations about eternal subjects like aging, how men treat women, and privilege. In the hands of a lesser writer this would make for a clumsy and tedious book, but The Sea, The Sea is a wonderful, satisfying read.

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Subjects

  • Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
  • Actors -- Fiction.
  • London (England) -- Fiction.

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