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Elegy for Iris by Bayley, John, John Bayley is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is Elegy for Iris about?

<p>"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing."<br><br>So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels.<br><br>In <i>Elegy for Iris</i>, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. <i>Elegy for Iris</i> is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.</p>

Who reads Elegy for Iris?

Author

Bayley, John, John Bayley

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312198640

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (688 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14