Vintage Classics: The Black Prince
With an Introduction by Candia McWilliam
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A 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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Vintage Classics: The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch, Candia McWilliam
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Very Good
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- Title
- Vintage Classics: The Black Prince
- Subtitle
- With an Introduction by Candia McWilliam
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Iris Murdoch, Candia McWilliam
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 415
- ISBN10
- 0099283999
- ISBN13
- 9780099283997
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Philosophical Topics, Love, Friendship, 20th century, Murders, England, Marriage, Ireland, Escape, Success, Writers, Suicide
- Original title
- The black prince
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- A 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.