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Bruno's Dream

Iris Murdoch

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#2602 of 8,085 books · #1133 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1970).

Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels. The flooding Thames brings about the climax, and all are left changed by love and forgiveness before the old man's death.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9781407019819
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Death and mortalityFamily relationshipsLove and forgiveness

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