Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 384 p Contains: Illustrations Audience: General/trade Book Description: A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography from the author of the universally acclaimed The Victorians AN Wilson s tutor at Oxford was John Bayley, and it was there that Wilson met Irish Murdoch He remained a close friend of them both, and it was at Iris s pleading in 1988 that he agreed to write her biography The biography was bound to be controversial, and Wilson pulls no punches in his attack on Bayley s own book on Iris and the portrayal of her as an Alzheimer s victim Instead, he gives us back the fiercely intelligent novelist and philosopher, and shows us a relationship that was deeply loving yet profoundly eccentric, and very unconventional for its day From the Back Cover: Praise for The Victorians: The best single-volume work on the Victorian age yet written --Evening Standard A masterpiece of popular history --