The Italian Girl: A Novel - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504049225 ISBN 13: 9781504049221

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2018

Synopsis

A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea.

The funeral of Edward's mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood home, it also triggers a resurgence of the family tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edward becomes tangled in his family's web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos. The Italian Girl is Murdoch's compelling story of a man's reunion with his estranged family, and of the tragedy that shocks them all into confronting their dark past.

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Review:

Praise for Iris Murdoch
"The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable." --The Times (London) on The Sea, The Sea

"[Murdoch is] prodigiously inventive." --The New York Times

"One of the most significant novelists of her generation." --The Guardian

"Murdoch was the rare kind of great, buoyant, confident writer who could drive the whole machine. She was as in touch with animal instincts as intellectual ones." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Book Description:

A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare's

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1504049225
• ISBN 13: 9781504049221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212