Iris murdoch

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It started about ten years ago when I was walking around in the west village with my girlfriend Jolie. In the Housing Works on West 10th I saw a copy of The Good Apprentice. I'd never heard of Iris Murdoch before but I liked the description on the back. I started reading it that night, and was hooked. It's about search for meaning, has a big cast, it's mysterious, and has a hint of weird magic. As I read more of her books, I'd see that that could describe almost all of them. So, what happens…

Iris Murdoch

In my “Read this” and “I have a book for you” family, no one had ever mentioned Murdoch. Her novels weren’t part of our approved canon. And yet I adored her.

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