The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The first edition of this award winning novel by Iris Murdoch in the original publisher's dust wrapper. First edition of The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch in the original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Murdoch's sixteenth novel won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1974. The plot follows the protagonist Blaise has he navigates his marriage, his son and his secret decade long affair.Iris Murdoch was an Irish-British novelist. Her novels frequently follow themes of good and evil, relationships and morality. She won the Booker Prize in 1978 for her novel The Sea, the Sea. She was made a Dame for services to literature in 1987. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. The dust wrapper is in fine condition and there is only some very slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Fine.