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Iris and Her Friends : a Memoir of Memory and Desire by Bayley, John, 1925- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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"John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a sequel to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. In a Proustian irony, as Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own."--BOOK JACKET. "Avoiding the gloom associated with his family tragedy, Bayley luminously brings to life in Iris and Her Friends the remarkable story of a philosopher whose novels celebrated the goodness of everyday existence. In bursts of vivid, lyrical reverie, Bayley also recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth: being born to a civil servant in colonial India; his epiphanic childhood vacations at the seaside English resort Littlestone-on-Sea, which gave him his first, important glimmers of adult consciousness; his discovery of the power of literature, especially the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Bowen, and Marcel Proust; and of course his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end."--BOOK JACKET.

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Author

Bayley, John, 1925-

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393048568

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (79 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14