Book: The black prince
Aug. 22nd, 2006 10:18 pmAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Details: (c) Iris Murdoch 1973; Pub Penguin 1975; ISBN 0-14-00-3934-1
Verdict: The black prince is too clever for its own good, and depressing besides.
Reasons for reading it: I have been very impressed with Iris Murdoch's other novels that I have read. This positive got me over the incredibly offputting cover, with bad seventies design, a vaguely noir-ish feel and a flash describing it as
How it came into my hands: A charity shop somewhere, possibly in Dundee but I forget.
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Details: (c) Iris Murdoch 1973; Pub Penguin 1975; ISBN 0-14-00-3934-1
Verdict: The black prince is too clever for its own good, and depressing besides.
Reasons for reading it: I have been very impressed with Iris Murdoch's other novels that I have read. This positive got me over the incredibly offputting cover, with bad seventies design, a vaguely noir-ish feel and a flash describing it as
A perverse pleasure.
How it came into my hands: A charity shop somewhere, possibly in Dundee but I forget.
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