The Sea the Sea
by Iris Murdoch · 1978
Literary Fiction · ranked #145 in category
Charles Arrowby, a famous theatre director, retires to a remote cottage by the sea to write his memoirs — and encounters his first love, whom he still believes is imprisoned by a bad marriage. Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel is about obsession, self-deception and the stories we tell about our own past.
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