Bayley, John

Iris and Her Friends A Memoir of Memory and Desire

Hardcover, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. "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 - an inverse relationship that has created literature of the most extraordinary resonance." Ships same or next business day. Book has bumps on both ends of spine; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge wear, light bump and creases on head of spine. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 275 pages. [Item #1240]

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