by Iris Murdoch · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140051995
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«The Sea, the Sea» is Iris Murdoch's literary fiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Charles Arrowby, a leading figure in London theatre, retires to an isolated house by the sea to write his memoirs and rekindle an old love. The arrival of unexpected visitors from his past disrupts his plans and tests his ego, in a story about obsession, solitude and the boundary between the real and the imaginary.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1978. This 1980 edition is a reprint of the original 1978 publication.
Suitable for book clubs and for readers of twentieth-century British fiction, with interests in psychological narrative and modern classics.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
