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The Book and the Brotherhood
Contributor(s): Murdoch, Iris (Author)
ISBN: 0140104704     ISBN-13: 9780140104707
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
OUR PRICE:   $20.90  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1989
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Annotation: Years ago, a group of friends bonded together to finance a political and philosophical book to be written by one of them. Now, amidst a midsummer ball at Oxford, a crisis occurs, and the vindictive ghosts of the past invade the present.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 88021894
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.02" W x 7.71" (0.91 lbs) 608 pages
 
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A story about love and friendship and Marxism

Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book.

Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history," Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.

Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.