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Original Title:	The Sea, The Sea
ISBN:	014118616X (ISBN13: 9780141186160)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Arrowby, Mary Hartley Fitch
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1978)

The Sea, The Sea Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors--some real, some spectral--that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. In exposing the jumble of motivations that drive Arrowby and the other characters, Iris Murdoch lays bare "the truth of untruth"--the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Charles's confrontation with the tidal rips of love and forgiveness is one of Murdoch's most moving and powerful novels.

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Title	:	The Sea, The Sea
Author	:	Iris Murdoch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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This great work shows how literary works, at their best, can serve a moral function, and how they can do so without explicit moralizing, as well as without taking sides in some ideological battle. It does so by illuminating the illusions and fantasies that are woven into the self-knowledge process. In particular, it reveals to us that, in the end, much of what passes for self-knowledge - and for knowledge of others, as well as of God - is in the final analysis a consoling illusion. Our faith,

The Sea, the Sea is the 1978 winner of the Booker Prize for good reasons. It is a brilliantly perspicacious exploration of human weakness in all its gory fullness. All the feelings that torment the soul are thrust into consciousness and displayed so well that the reading experience is so bad at times. Very few books that serve up a detestable self-serving cad as the main protagonist have succeeded in becoming for me a five-star read. This is an exception. Charles Arrowby, an eminent theatre

Truth be told, I was scared of the book. Scared of its length, scared I might not like it enough to finish it (I'm very frustrated when I can't finish books - I always feel it's my fault).Thank goodness Murdoch really knows how to write, I actually loved reading "The Bell" a couple of years ago and I promised myself I'd keep on reading Murdoch. But I never knew which one to continue with, and, yes, I was scared of their length :). And I chose this one because it was mentioned in a really nice

Here's the first thing I love about The Sea, The Sea: its title. Isn't it wonderful? Imagine how boring it would have looked on a shelf if it had just been called "The Sea." But with that profoundly simple decision to repeat itself, it suddenly drips horror and madness and obsession. It's just brilliant. Almost makes me wish Emily Bronte had called her book "The Moor, The Moor."And then Murdoch plays this terrific game with the opening sentence: The sea which lies before me as I write glows

This book earned the author the Booker Prize in 1978. Its a powerful book. I had seen it forever at library sales and for years I thought I should read it. Finally, I did, and I wish I had read it earlier. Im giving it a rating of 5 and adding it to my favorites.The main character is a recently retired actor/playwright/theater director. He was a so-so actor, a better playwright, but a masterful director. In the last endeavor he achieved his fame and made his money. The main character is an

Be careful what you wish for Jealousy is born with love, but doesnt always die with love.Do you yearn for your first love - to spend just a moment together?What if your sighting was accidental, unexpected, and you were unprepared?Do you really love them still - or is it your youthful self you love? Is stalking a passive act, a safety-valve?Or does it forge the innocent past into a twisted vision of the future?Maybe cousin James is right:Youve built a cage of needs and installed her in an empty

An extraordinary novel, at once page-turner and philosophic, comic and melodramatic, one of the best that I've read. Murdoch is remarkably skilled at inhabiting the minds of her protagonists, and Charles Arrowby, a late-middle-aged, bumbling, morally dubious, veteran of theater, is a wondrous creation. The first 100 pages of this novel shouldn't work, as Charles, in journal form, moves to Shruff's end and inhabits a lonely house by the sea, wanders around town, experiences visions that he blames