"The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine."
-- The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, a novel about an aging playwright/director/actor who retires to the North Sea coast of England.
This won the Booker prize in 1978. I am reading it for my Battle of the Prizes, British Version challenge. It will also count as one of my Chunkster Challenge reads.
Book Beginnings on Friday is a weekly Opening Sentence event now hosted by Katy at A Few More Pages.
Just poppin' on by to say "Hi!" this Friday.
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ReplyDeleteI loved this book; it's so interesting and weird in a way. Murdoch is amazing but I'll bet you already know that :-)
ReplyDeleteBev -- Thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteMarie -- "Interesting and weird" describes so many of Murdoch's books. I love them, even though I don't, as a rule, like magic in books. And she will often slip something in that is downright magical, or at least metaphysical -- like the bad guy in A Fairly Honourable Defeat being the devil, or the good guy in Jackson's Dilemma being an angel.
I purchased this book only the other day and now I can't wait to read it
ReplyDeleteBecky -- Even though it is long and dense, the story unfolds so naturally that I am swept along in it. I love it.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this book very much myself, it was only my second by Murdoch. I look forward to your thoughts on it.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds really interesting. I'll have to see if I can track down a copy at the library.
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating in Book Beginnings on Friday! :)