The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140039341 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140039341 Global Overview for this book
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Now, this addition has a different cover (and not half as nice as the one shown here!).
The back cover reads:
The Black Prince is a story aobut being in love; it is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involuted plot; and a meditation on the nature of art, of love and of the power of human relationshops.
Bradley Pearson, its narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Encompassed by predatory friends and relatives - his ex-wife and her delinquent brother; Arnold Baffin, a younger and deplorably successful writer; Baffin's wife and daughter - Bradley attempts escape.
His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a bewildering and shifting perspective on all that has goine before.
The back cover reads:
The Black Prince is a story aobut being in love; it is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involuted plot; and a meditation on the nature of art, of love and of the power of human relationshops.
Bradley Pearson, its narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Encompassed by predatory friends and relatives - his ex-wife and her delinquent brother; Arnold Baffin, a younger and deplorably successful writer; Baffin's wife and daughter - Bradley attempts escape.
His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a bewildering and shifting perspective on all that has goine before.
