Fiction & Literature
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Synopsis
Retired theatre director Charles Arrowby moves to the coast to write about his life and escape its entanglements. An encounter with his first love disrupts that retreat. His account gradually exposes the distance between the story he tells himself and the desires of the people around him.
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