Author:Iris Murdoch,Bidisha SK Mamata,Juliet Aubrey
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VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.
‘It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.’
When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?
(C) Iris Murdoch 1957 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
How bloody good her novels are – how intelligent, how lucent, how divinely crazy. They’re fun – I’d forgotten that.
—— Sarah Waters , GuardianOne of her most haunting works... She is spectacularly enigmatic
—— Philippa GregoryHer characters are described with loving exactitude and in such depth that their struggles to define what it means to live a good life take on dramatic force.
—— New York TimesIris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour
—— The TimesShe believes in everything: true love, veridical visions, magic, monsters, pagan spirits. Her world is ignited by belief
—— Martin AmisAn absolutely scintillating, slightly bizarre, page-turner
—— Val Hennessy , Daily Mail'Old, dead creature brings down flash, vain senator... Out in front as the most fizzing and amusing novel of the year.'
—— STRONG WORDS magazine‘Jessica Anthony’s Enter the Aardvark was exactly the smart, funny and poignant pick-me-up that I needed…Anthony entwines her two narrative threads with seamless precision...Riotously entertaining’
—— i-newsSharp, inventive and very funny, it’s an entertainingly bizarre political satire.
—— TATLER‘A joyfully weird, compulsive political satire'
—— MAIL ON SUNDAYInventive and darkly funny...as Anthony connects characters from today with those from 19th-century England, she offers an original and unsettling lens through which to view male power as it has evolved over time.
—— TIME‘Weird, wonderful, and very much of the moment, Enter the Aardvark is a landmark political novel of the Trump era.’
—— ESQUIRE.COM Best Books of 2020The scope of Anthony’s imagination can sometimes beggar belief. What a mind she has. As the narrative twists between the past and the present, it seems like anything could happen at any time….a hilariously poisonous evisceration of the cowardly, disingenuous politicians running rampant through Trump’s Washington.
—— CULTUREFLY‘Sometimes, a paragraph near the start of a novel is so perfect and funny that you read it over and over, laugh every time, and know you’re in for a treat…I'm loving it. Completely insane but utterly hilarious’
—— JOHN BOYNE‘A curious, surprising and moving story about two men who— to put it one way — become involved with an aardvark and thereby condemn themselves to death.’
—— THE CRITICLike A.S. Byatt like with a demented sense of humor… [Jessica Anthony] holds up a funhouse mirror to our own political media in the age of spin…with sentences reminiscent of Joyce’s Dubliners and the later works of T. S. Eliot.
—— LA REVIEW OF BOOKSA wild ride and might just be the perfect antidote to the wild ride we’re in in real life].
—— ELECTRIC LITThe structure doesn’t so much intrigue as ensnare you, weaving its cat’s cradle of a plot as you lie there, strapped to a table... “Enter the Aardvark” is brutally suited to our moment of absurd political theater.
—— LA TIMESA blisteringly innovative and outrageous novel...If you're searching for a sharp, looking-glass view into the far end of contemporary politics, look no further. Jessica Anthony's novel has the pacing of a thriller with satirical verve of Nathanael West.
—— NY OBSERVER'Enter the Aardvark is one wild ride: a condemnation, a haunting, a song of love, a madcap political thriller—and it is absolutely unputdownable.' LAURA VAN DEN BERG, author of THE THIRD HOTEL
—— LAURA VAN DER BERG, author of THR THIRD HOTEL'Hilarious, moving, ingenious... Enter the Aardvark is an absolute original.'
—— BROCK CLARKE, author of WHO ARE YOU, CALVIN BLEDSOE?