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Something special / Iris Murdoch.
- Title
- Something special / Iris Murdoch.
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6063.U7 S66 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 41 p. : ill.; 17 cm.
- Summary
- Set in the author's native city of Dublin in the 1950s, this story focuses on independent-minded Yvonne, nearly too old to be a bride, who continues to believe that there is more to life than marriage to Sam, the dutiful man who is courting her. Living at home with an overbearing mother whose fantasy world is rekindled by the visit of a salesman, and a stern uncle who fears he will have to support her, Yvonne comes to the painful realization that she can no longer maintain the balance between her bold spirit and the impending truths of a forestalled adulthood ...
- Subject
- Courtship > Ireland > Dublin > Fiction
- Young women > Ireland > Dublin > Fiction
- Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in Winter's tale, no. 3 ... 1957"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0701169184
- LCCN
- ^^^00300328^
- OCLC
- 41661896
- SCSB-12816694
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library