The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978.

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A tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.