A Word Child

📖 A Word Child

Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.

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Издательство
Vintage books
ISBN
9780099429128
Год
2022