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"John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a sequel 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. In a Proustian irony, as Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own."--BOOK JACKET.
"Avoiding the gloom associated with his family tragedy, Bayley luminously brings to life in Iris and Her Friends the remarkable story of a philosopher whose novels celebrated the goodness of everyday existence.
In bursts of vivid, lyrical reverie, Bayley also recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth: being born to a civil servant in colonial India; his epiphanic childhood vacations at the seaside English resort Littlestone-on-Sea, which gave him his first, important glimmers of adult consciousness; his discovery of the power of literature, especially the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Bowen, and Marcel Proust; and of course his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end."--BOOK JACKET.
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English Novelists, Critics, Married people, Philosophers, Patients, Marriage, Alzheimer's disease, College teachers, University of Oxford, Biography, English Women novelists, Women philosophers, Large type books, Murdoch, iris, 1919-1999, Alzheimer's disease, patients, Great britain, biographyPeople
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Iris and her friends: a memoir of memory and desire
2000, Thorndike Press, Chivers Press
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Iris and her friends: a memoir of memory and desire
2000, W.W. Norton
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