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- ISBN 9780099429074
- Weight: 238g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator.
Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hugo. Hugo is a fireworks manufacturer turned movie producer and majestic philosopher. Hugo loves Sadie. Sadie is a glossy and dazzling film starlet. Of course, Sadie loves Jake. Then there’s Marvellous Mister Mars, the famous hound, who might or might not be Jake’s ticket up and out of this mess.
‘A dazzling story, light and comic in touch’
The Times
‘A brilliant talent’
Times Literary Supplement
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
