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The Sandcastle (Vintage classics) (Paperback)

by Iris Murdoch (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099433583
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099433583
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77,061 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Peter Conradi, The Guardian

‘Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century.’


The Times

‘Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour’
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4.0 out of 5 stars A study of love as an illness, 29 May 2001
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This book is an exquisite portrayal of how a man falls victim to love's madness. A middle-aged school master, Mor, betrays his wife and family and falls madly in love with a young artist, who has been commissioned by the school to paint the Headmaster's portrait. Mor behaves abominably throughout, but his situation and emotions are so sensitively depicted that the reader is intrigued to find out how Mor can possibly resolve his crisis. Murdoch does not encourage any sympathy from the reader - Mor is too far in the wrong for that - but she does manage to reveal the devastating effect that romantic love's madness can wreak on the lover, as well as those who surround him. Murdoch's delicacy and faultless sense of balance allows the reader to see common sentiments expressed with precision and beauty, for example when Mor is required to comment on his wife's new appointment, '"I'm glad too" he said, "it'll be good for her". The words were empty. The future in which Nan would enjoy the benefit of her daring did not belong to him"'. This book is an excellent read, subtle yet engaging, and I strongly reccommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars not nesscesarily comfortable, but very much worth reading, 28 Oct 2005
By lolly7 "alilallli" (cambridge england) - See all my reviews
I fell in love with this book (no pun intended) the first time I read it. Murdoch does not make us sympathetic towards any of the characters, as they are all at fault for what happens to them.
Mor is an ageing school teacher, feeling appart from his tedious and ever scolding wife, and disinterested with his life and its monotonous progress. This changes however when a young artist arrives, having been commisoned to paint a protrait for the school. He emmediately feels attracted to her, even though it takes some time for him to realise she feels the same way. There are many wrenching scenes near the end of the book, where his 2 lives are clumsily merged with devastating and irreversible consequenses. The ending is beautifully tailored and not in the least abrupt.
This is definately a book to recomend, but perhaps not the thing to cheer you up on a bad day.
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