The Time of the Angels (The Collected Works of Iris Murdoch) - Hardcover

Murdoch, Iris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701134259 ISBN 13: 9780701134259

Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1989

Synopsis

Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a religious man transferring his faith from one force to the other. This Collected Edition is published to honour Iris Murdoch's 70th birthday.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Carel is rector of a City church that was destroyed in the war. In the rectory live his daughter Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward Elizabeth, and their West Indian servant Patti. Here too are Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son Leo. Carel?s brother Marcus tries to make contact with Carel but is constantly rebuffed. These seven characters go through a dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation with the enigmatic Carel at the centre ? a priest who believes that God being dead, His Angels are released.

About the Author

IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0701134259
• ISBN 13: 9780701134259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English