Lisa spottend an Iris Murdoch book in the bookcase at The Little House on The Prairie. Likely it belongs to Lars as I have no previous recollection of it and it was near his collection of Steinbeck books. So, what was I to do but read it?
The Red and the Green, was copyrighted in 1965 so it's not hot off the press. This novel is the story of 7 or 8 tense days leading up to the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. The uprising was an aborted attempt by Irish patriots to end British rule of Ireland. The book jacket quotes Newsweek about Murdoch "She has the superb novelists gift of embodying her insights in breathing , violently different characters...she is a master of stagecraft: plot, suspense, atmosphere." She was a philosophy don at Oxford and deep moral and philosophical issues are replete in her writing. "Irish-born herself, she writes with warm notalgia for the sights, sounds, and smells of Dublin and for its beguiling and exasperating people." Book Jacket.
I'm happy to have read this engaging a provocative book.
Takk for alt,
Al
My father's family: Front row Grandpa Lars and Grandma Sigrid with Aunt Anna in the middle.
Back from viewer's left: Uncle Sam, Albert my father and Uncle Henry.
1 comment:
I so love your book recommendations, Al. Thanks for this.
I was sorry not to be able to open or see your photo.
Blessings this day, whatever you are reading,
Marilyn
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