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Title details for The Sea, the Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) by Daisy Johnson - Available

The Sea, the Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

by Daisy Johnson
Richard E. Grant
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Brought to you by Penguin.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.
'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.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1978.
© Iris Murdoch 1978 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

  • Creators

  • Series

    Vintage Classics Murdoch

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 2, 2020

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9781473575110
      • File size: 670231 KB
      • Duration: 23:16:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Simon Vance illuminates Iris Murdoch's rich and disturbing character portrait. Written as the memoirs of a retired theater director in a seaside town, the audiobook is a depiction of a man losing his grip on reality and identity. Playing the old director as leaning towards melodrama and a hint of theatrical campiness, Vance convincingly creates a disparity between the man's viewpoints and the listener's sense of him. If anything, Vance could have added a touch more of the character's dormant nastiness to further lean on the unreliability of the novel's narrator. And while Vance himself proves to be slightly inconsistent when it comes to UK accents, he nevertheless commands the character and the setting with the authority of an accomplished veteran. Z.S. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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