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Sacred and Profane Love Machine
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Sacred and Profane Love Machine Mass market - 1984

by IRIS MURDOCH

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Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1984. Mass Market . 3 PB standard 50%.
Used - 3 PB standard 50%
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  • Title Sacred and Profane Love Machine
  • Author IRIS MURDOCH
  • Binding Mass Market
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - 3 PB standard 50%
  • Pages 365
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group USA Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date March 1984
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 649307
  • ISBN 9780140041118 / 0140041117
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.66 x 5.24 x 0.84 in (19.46 x 13.31 x 2.13 cm)
  • Reading level 900
  • Library of Congress subjects Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Didactic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77371550
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators at any rate—a morality play, rich in reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.

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“A novel of infinite variety and intelligence; the work of a novelist at the height of her powers.”—Christopher Hudson

“[Iris Murdoch] remains a consummate and sensual scene-painter.”—Michael Ratcliffe in The Times (London)

About the author

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry.

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