| The Black Prince Contributor(s): Murdoch, Iris (Author), Nussbaum, Martha C. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0142180114 ISBN-13: 9780142180112 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: In this riveting tale of love and intellectual intrigue, Murdoch gives readers a seductive story with ever-mounting action, including suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002045043 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.80 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded. |