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Publisher: Penguin

Author: Iris Murdoch

ISBN: 9780141186696

Year: 2001

Format: Paperback

Classics, Fiction

Bell by
Iris Murdoch

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$ 400.00 mxn

Bell by

Iris Murdoch

Summary

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean....Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.

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