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"It is, I contend, no small achievement to survive the perfect family." So Greg Malone says at the beginning of a graceful, generous and sometimes hilarious memoir of his childhood in the St. John's of the 1950s and 60s. A memoir from one of...
Best-known for her novels and longer philosophical works, Iris Murdoch was also a brilliant essayist, and produced classic pieces on a wide range of philosophical and literary subjects. Through essays such as `Existentialists and Mystics' she...
"I've just read 'the Green Road' and am impressed. Not with all. Not as a novel, and the climax was no such thing. But Rosaleen's `story' by itself was good poetry again and again, it brought me to tears more than once, and the strong sense that..."
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"Liked this book a lot. I could feel each character so clearly and was able to give each a face and way of being. Loved the complete "Irishness" of the story and the land. Will look for another of her writings."
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