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Title details for The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch - Available

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch
Mary Kinzie
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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 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.

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  • Release date

    April 18, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781524782979
      • File size: 604905 KB
      • Duration: 21:00:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Simon Vance illuminates Iris Murdoch's rich and disturbing character portrait. Written as the memoirs of a retired theater director in a seaside town, the audiobook is a depiction of a man losing his grip on reality and identity. Playing the old director as leaning towards melodrama and a hint of theatrical campiness, Vance convincingly creates a disparity between the man's viewpoints and the listener's sense of him. If anything, Vance could have added a touch more of the character's dormant nastiness to further lean on the unreliability of the novel's narrator. And while Vance himself proves to be slightly inconsistent when it comes to UK accents, he nevertheless commands the character and the setting with the authority of an accomplished veteran. Z.S. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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