A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Iris Murdoch, Susan Hill

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English

Vintage
03 May 2002

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The most important novelist writing in my time A. S. Byatt

Everyone is thinking about Julius King.

For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.

'The most important novelist writing in my time' A. S. Byatt

'Murdoch's art was expansive, non-autobiographical and insistently inventive' Daily Telegraph

'Above all, she was a consummate story-teller, prodigiously inventive and generous' Independent

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL

By: Iris Murdoch
Introduction by: Susan Hill
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780099285335
ISBN 10: 0099285339
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 03 May 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist * Sunday Times * A distinguished novelist of a very rare kind * Kingsley Amis * The most important novelist writing in my time * A.S. Byatt *