The Black Prince
by Iris Murdoch
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0670172863
- ISBN 13
- 9780670172863
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It is witty and wise and provocative...brilliantly good' Evening StandardA story about being in love The Black Prince is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involuted plot, and a meditation on the nature of art and love and the deity who rules over both. Bradley Pearson, its narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Encompassed by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother and a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, together with Baffin's restless wife and youthful daughter - Bradley attempts escape. His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a shifting perspective on all that has gone before.
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- Title
- The Black Prince
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0670172863
- ISBN 13
- 9780670172863
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
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