An Accidental Man
by Iris Murdoch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670102083
- ISBN 13
- 9780670102082
- Seller
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Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Second printing, February 1972. Jacket has some creasing, tears and sticker residue. Spine very slightly cocked. Some rubbing to boards with one vertical crease to front board. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper dated August 1974. A few small stains to page edges. Internally pages clean and unmarked. Jacket design by Blanche Simkin.
Synopsis
Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond MortimerThis is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can 'save' him. In this latter role we meet Austin's estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, and Austin's far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin's fate, with hilarious and appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope and variety in which Iris Murdoch's astonishing fertility of mind and unerring narrative skill are most felicitously combined.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roxanna Nazari, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1602
- Title
- An Accidental Man
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670102083
- ISBN 13
- 9780670102082
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
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- Cocked
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- Edges
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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