by Iris Murdoch
Miss Murdoch's new novel, her third, is superficially different from her earlier ones, but the complicated symbolism and sombre high-jinks that her admirers have come to expect are still to be found. Bill Mor, a housemaster and teacher at St. Bride's School, and his wife, Nan, have been married twenty years, have two teen-age children, Don and Felicity, and have grown out of love and even sympathy because of Nan's...
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