Bruno's Dream
$35.56
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2001
Summary
Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider’s web of relationships and passions. Bruno’s estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno’s widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch’s finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels. The flooding Thames brings about the climax, and all are left changed by love and forgiveness before the old man’s death.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285373 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099285371 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch, Robert Irwin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
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