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John Bayley

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement, or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

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A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol.Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams.Here, in Widower's House: A Study i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-24437-3
  • EAN: 9780393244373
  • Produktnummer: 34247431
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'076 KB

Über den Autor


Born in India in 1925, John Bayley was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became a fellow of New College in 1955, where he taught English. In 1956, he married the novelist Iris Murdoch, who was then teaching philosophy at St. Anne's College. Bayley is an eminent literary critic and the author of Iris and Her Friends and Elegy for Iris. He has since remarried. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and an active supporter of Alzheimer's International, Bayley still lives and writes in Oxford, England.

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