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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140104704
ISBN-139780140104707
eBay Product ID (ePID)74460
Product Key Features
Book TitleBook and the Brotherhood
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary
Publication Year1989
GenreFiction
AuthorIris Murdoch
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height14.4 in
Item Weight15 oz
Item Length38.2 in
Item Width11.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-021894
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal823.9/14
SynopsisA story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history," Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.