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The sea, the sea

Murdoch, IrisBurnside, John(Introduction by)
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When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea.

He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.

His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his past.

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Vintage Classics
009928409X / 9780099284093
Paperback / softback
823.914
01/07/1999
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
xviii, 502 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1978.
'One of the best and most important writers writing in English-dazzlingly entertaining and inventive' The Times 20050217
'One of the best and most important writers writing in English-dazzlingly entertaining and inventive' The Times 20050217 FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)