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.
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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.
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Add this copy of Iris and Her Friends: a Memoir of Memory and Desire to cart. $50.47, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Chivers.