Elegy for Iris
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Biography
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LC Subjects
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
Bayley, John, -- 1925- -- Marriage.
College teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Murdoch, Iris -- Marriage.
University of Oxford -- Biography.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bayley, John, -- 1925- -- Marriage.
College teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Murdoch, Iris -- Marriage.
University of Oxford -- Biography.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 pages : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral beauty of youth and the sobering reality of what it means to grow old, but its ultimate power is that Bayley discovers great hope and joy in his celebration of Iris's life and their love. In its grasp of life's frailty and its portrayal of one of the great literary romances of this century, Elegy for Iris is a mesmerizing work of art that will be read for generations.