The Book and the Brotherhood
Author(s): Iris Murdoch
Hardback fiction | Literary Fiction
A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book.
Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history," Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.
Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Viking Adult
- : 1.12037
- : 01 February 1988
- : books
Special Fields
- : Iris Murdoch
- : Hardback
- : very good