May. 1st, 2007

Book Review

May. 1st, 2007 05:21 pm
kenjari: (govans)
The Bell
by Iris Murdoch

Murdoch writes wonderful novels reminiscent of George Eliot in their psychological insight. The Bell is about a group of people gathered at Imber Court, a lay community attached to a heavily cloistered convent. Just as the convent prepares to recive a new bell, the original medieval bell is discovered at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, the inhabitants and visitors gathered at Imber Court grapple, through a complex series of interactions, with the intersection of morality and human frailty. I found the book thoroughly absorbing and the characters very genuine.

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