TheBookchemist | The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch REVIEW @TheBookchemist | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
I wish ALL my novels featured a sea monster popping up on page 10. It doesn't even have to play a big part in the book - just put it there and roll on with the plot!
A note on Charles Arrowby - I describe him as "a director from London," but of course I mean that as the place of his latest residence before moving to Shruff End, and as the one he sees as his natural milieu. Originally, he is from Lincolnshire.
The books I mention as my favorite include The Keep by Jennifer Egan, Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, Moonglow by Michael Chabon, number9dream by David Mitchell, and Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. (An obvious omission would be Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City!)
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I wish ALL my novels featured a sea monster popping up on page 10. It doesn't even have to play a big part in the book - just put it there and roll on with the plot!
A note on Charles Arrowby - I describe him as "a director from London," but of course I mean that as the place of his latest residence before moving to Shruff End, and as the one he sees as his natural milieu. Originally, he is from Lincolnshire.
The books I mention as my favorite include The Keep by Jennifer Egan, Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon, Moonglow by Michael Chabon, number9dream by David Mitchell, and Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. (An obvious omission would be Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City!)
US readers, buy The Sea, the Sea on IndieBound (yep I'm an affiliate):
indiebound.org/book/9780141186160?aff=TheBookchemist
UK & other European readers, buy it on Blackwell's (also an affiliate):
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Sea-the-Sea-by-Iris-Murdoch/9781784875190/?a_aid=TheBookchemist
If you enjoy my reviews, please consider supporting the channel on Patreon:
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Follow me on GoodReads!
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