Iris And Her Friends A Memoir Of Memory And Desire

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244369
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire written by John Bayley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one. John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie, Bayley recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth, from his birth to a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end. This is the transcendent work of a brilliant man, whose examination of the tragedies and joys of his own life will give readers great healing insight. John Bayley's Iris and Her Friends is nothing less than a classic of true love and sorrow. "Love makes every beautifully formed sentence, every generously shared moment, shimmer and sing."—Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393320790
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire written by John Bayley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As his wife, beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's, John Bayley wrote his own recollections as a companion piece to "Elegy for Iris". Sharing his memories from childhood as a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end, Bayley's examinations of his own life offer readers great healing insight.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715629321
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris and the Friends written by John Bayley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last month or so of the life of Iris Bayley, the wife of the author, provides the framework for this biography. But within this structure the author enters into extensive memories of the past. The book could almost be called The Use of Memory - in a Proustian sense. It continually harks back to the author's own childhood and to Iris's early years to explain how they came together and how they were 'right' for each other. So in this book the author explains much more about himself and describes in much more details how he managed to cope with the ordeal of seeing his wife become terminally ill and lose her faculties. In this he quotes a considerable amount from literature, which is his own field of study.

Author : Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567703371
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Others written by Paul S. Fiddes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'others' examined by Fiddes are mainly those with whom Murdoch entered into explicit dialogue in her novels and philosophical writing - including Immanuel Kant, Simone Weil, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolph Bultmann, Paul Tillich, Don Cupitt, Donald Mackinnon and Jacques Derrida. This 'historic' dialogue is, however, placed within a wider dialogue between literature and theology being conducted by the author, and 'others' are brought into relation with Murdoch in order to illuminate this more extensive conversation - notably the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva. The book demonstrates that characteristic themes in Murdoch's novels and philosophy - the love of the Good, the death of the ego, illusory consolations, the death of God, the modifying of the will by 'waiting', the sublime and the beautiful, and attention to other things and persons - all take on a greater meaning when placed in the context of her life-long conversation with theology. The exploration of this context is deepened in this volume by reference to annotations and notes that Murdoch made in a number of theological books in her personal library.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466854243
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegy for Iris written by John Bayley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780349114293
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris written by John Bayley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is wonderfully peaceful to sit in bed with Iris reassuringly asleep and gently snoring. Half asleep again myself I have a feeling of floating down the river, and watching all the rubbish from the houses and from our lives - the good as well as the bad - sinking slowly down through the dark water until it is lost in the depths. Iris is floating or swimming quietly beside me. Weeds and larger leaves sway and stretch themselves beneath the surface. Blue dragonflies dart and hover to and fro by the river bank. And suddenly a kingfisher flashes past.'

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410361551
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Ann Burack-Weiss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510772
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caregiver's Tale written by Ann Burack-Weiss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world. The Caregiver's Tale offers insight and comfort to individuals caring for a loved one and is a valuable resource for all health care professionals. Identifying common themes, Burack-Weiss describes how the illness career and social meaning of cancer, dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and chemical dependence affect the caregiving experience. She applies the same method to an examination of family roles: parents caring for ailing children, couples and siblings caring for one another, and adult children caring for aging parents. Jamaica Kincaid, Sue Miller, Paul Monette, Kenzaburo Oë, and Philip Roth are among the many authors who share their caregiving stories. Burack-Weiss provides an annotated bibliography of the more than one hundred memoirs and an accompanying chart to help readers locate those of greatest interest to them.

Author : Maria Antonaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199855587
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy to Live By written by Maria Antonaccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Philosophy to Live By highlights Murdoch's distinctive conception of philosophy as a spiritual or existential practice and enlists the resources of her thought to explore a wide range of thinkers and debates at the intersections of moral philosophy, religion, art, and politics.

Author : Jane Yeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797027
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing written by Jane Yeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers’ groups or writers working alone, this book offers: a practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths a sensible, up-to-date guide to going public, to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishers a distinctive collection of exciting exercises, spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and control a substantial array of illuminating readings, bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers.