By Iris Murdoch
ISBN-10: 1453201149
ISBN-13: 9781453201145
A incredible yet deeply wrong guy struggles to earn absolution
Hilary Burde was once a emerging megastar in academia till a sad twist of fate plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into twenty years of melancholy and guilt. Hilary, not able to beat his ache, deserted his promising profession for an unfulfilling activity as a civil servant. yet at age 41, Hilary crosses paths back with Gunnar—initiating a chain of occasions that may swap their lives forever.
Set opposed to a richly drawn backdrop of post-war London, A observe Child is a gripping tale of ardour and the redemptive energy of love.
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Reine Dieu crawls to the highway. Mademoiselle turns her back on her. Catherine Legrand catches up with her. Reine Dieu and Catherine Legrand hide behind the chapel. You are reading whole sentences aloud out of the book. Mademoiselle is sitting in the wicker chair behind the big desk which comes all the way to the floor so you can’t see her legs. She is reading from the same book as yours. Denise Baume is repeating a sentence. Helene Corte has already read this sentence but she could not finish it.
You leave her sitting down. As you go down the steps you can hear her crying loudly. I? J l Veine Dieu is at the blackboard. She is mak ing a mess of her multiplication. The board is behind Mademoiselle’s platform, so that Mademoiselle turns halfway around in her chair and twists her neck to watch her. From the side you can see her bun and half of her glasses, one of the steel rims with glass in it. The frame is hooked behind her ear. You can see it clearly because her hair is pulled back by the bun.
Veronique Legrand has blond hair that is al most white. She runs ahead on the path, you can see her knees touch her chin when she jumps. And her hair bounces above her forehead. You stop to make weewee because nobody is around. You squat down. You watch thejarme make patterns in the dust, the little golden \fills imn around islands, then disappear under the thick leaves that look like rhubarb. Big flies buzz by. Veronique Legrand says, W hat is meat made of. It is made of the stuff in your nose, all the nasty 30 things that are found in noses.
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
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