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A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love. After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web.… (mais)
JuliaMaria: In der Einleitung zu "an unofficial rose" von Anthony D. Nuttall wird Dickens als Vergleich herangezogen: "An Unofficial Rose is indeed a surprisingly Dickensian novel, crowded, superabundant."
JuliaMaria: In der Einleitung zu "an unofficial rose" von Iris Murdoch schreibt Anthony D. Nuttal: "But this book is really much more Shakespearen than it is Dickensian, The Tempest, which will figure so prominently in The Sea, The Sea, is powerfully though less obtrusively operative in this earlier book."… (mais)
JuliaMaria: In beiden Romanen geht es (u.a.) um Vater und Sohn: Der Vater hat auf seine große Liebe zugunsten einer konventionellen Ehe verzichtet. Nun steht der Sohn vor einer ähnlichen Situation: wie wird er sich verhalten, wie der Vater? In beiden Romanen wird der Vater seine ehemalige Geliebte wieder aufsuchen.… (mais)
Good to see an Aussie boy come out trumps after all the characters go through the Murdoch Particle Collider and emerge confused, freer and in some cases better.
A Severed Head and The Bell were hard acts to follow, and I found this one a bit less compelling than those two. But still an excellent read mixing farce and romance. ( )
Murdoch has nothing on Chekhov when it comes to a willingness to simply run their course in a way that does not cater in the least to the reader's desire for satisfying resolution. The character I would have taken bets on to undergo a life-altering change, Ann, even after she discovers she was played by her daughter, results in Ann simply acknowledging her mettle....or that her metal is of a very mundane sort and plodding on. The most abstract yet comprehensive observation I can arrive at is that only the characters who are outright manipulators of others seem to have the lease idea what they are about; the rest of the characters from any other perspective but their own, play roles of the unseeing bumbling their way through their own lives.
It is such a pleasure to be in the hands of such a brilliant prose writer. On the other hand her characters are a piece of work, every one, and mercilessly depicted, which has me liking all of them less than I probably would if I knew them or had a chance to be inside their heads. It's strange to reach the end of a book and breathe a sigh of relief at my release, yet to be stilled by the dénouement and led to reflect on a resolution that (spoiler?)seems so unsatisfactory and yet on a deeper human level, is probably not. Wonderful Murdoch. Thank you again. ( )
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'Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose'
Rupert Brooke
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To Margaret Hubbard
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I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
Fanny Peronett was dead. That much her husband Hugh Peronett was certain of as he stood in the rain beside the grave which was shortly to receive his wife's mortal remains. Further than that, Hugh's certainty did not reach. The promise meant little to him that the priest had uttered.
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He turned back toward the light of the ship and peered at his watch. It was time to go in now. Mildred would be waiting for him.
A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love. After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web.
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An Unofficial Rose
