The sea, the sea
(2001, original release: 1978)
By:
Murdoch, Iris
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MURDOCH,I
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2001
©1978
©1978
DESCRIPTION
xxvii, 495 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780141186160, 014118616X, 9780141186160, 014118616X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors - some real, some spectral - that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core
Man Booker Prize, 1978