Description
An ageing London novelist, Bradley Pearson, is determined to craft his long-awaited masterwork—yet his carefully ordered ambitions are repeatedly derailed by the tangled lives around him. As he becomes entangled with the much younger daughter of his old friend and literary rival, Arnold Baffin, Bradley’s private ideals collide with desire, jealousy, and the messy comedy of human relationships. With a large cast that includes his wealthy ex-wife Christian and her cash-strapped gay brother Francis—who delivers outrageous, provocative claims—this novel turns the act of storytelling into a lively moral and psychological inquiry. In Iris Murdoch’s characteristically artful, entertaining style, the book explores love, self-deception, and the gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us, all while playfully challenging the boundaries between “high” literature and the salacious stories we pretend to disdain.
Available Editions
paperback
French
Published Jan 1, 1989
58 pages
ISBN: 0573017247
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Details
First Published
1973
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch.