A disappointing life of Iris Murdoch.(Reviews)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her. A. N. Wilson. Hutchinson. [pounds sterling]18.99. x + 275 pages. ISBN 0-09-174246-3.

This is a deeply unsatisfactory work of life-writing. It takes A. N. Wilson almost fifty pages to explain the basis of the book, and in that space he is irritatingly self-indulgent, digressing to explain trivial minutiae. Mr. Wilson wants to reinforce the view that he is dealing with the life of a talented writer and thinker. But as the reader presses on, the focus turns more to her drinking habits and moods than to anything substantial. There is a feeling while ...

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