Nuns and soldiers / Iris Murdoch ; introduction by Karen Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murdoch, Iris.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Widows--Fiction.

Widows.

Southern France.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

France, Southern--Fiction.

France, Southern.

Ex-nuns--Fiction.

Ex-nuns.

Artists--Fiction.

Artists.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Didactic fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xv, 492 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2002.

Summary:

Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ. A fascinating array of men and women hover in urgent orbit around them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his &eacutemigr&eacute father's patriotic anguish; Tim Reede, a seedy yet appealing artist, and Daisy, his mistress; the manipulative Mrs. Mount; and many other magically drawn characters moving between desire and obligation, guilt and joy. This edition of "Nuns and Soldiers" includes a new introduction by renowned religious historian Karen Armstrong.

ISBN:

0142180092

9780142180099

OCLC:

49952063

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