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  • The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

  • By: Iris Murdoch
  • Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey
  • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)
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Summary

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Vintage Classics Murdoch: funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the 20th century. To celebrate her centenary, Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.

When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter, he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife, Nan, and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?

Audio updated as of June 2020.
©1957 Iris Murdoch (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Literary Fiction
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super super Iris

what a heautifuk and elegant reading. these renditions are always a joy. thank you 😊

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Not one of her better books I am afraid.

Beautifully descriptive but a weak story line and a disappointing end.
Not one of her better books

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Not her best

I love iris murdochs writing but this story is spun out and is a real anticlimax. Amazing how easily people fell in love in those days- and the man in the story is really so dull one cant imagine how the young woman could
love him. But very well read

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