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020			_a9781784875183
082			_a823.914 _bMUR
100			_aMurdoch, Iris
245			_aBlack prince
260			_bVintage, _c2019 _aLondon :
300			_axv, 475 p. ; _c18 cm
365			_b499.00 _cINR _d00
490			_aPenguin classics
520			_aBradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.
650			_aTrials, Murder
650			_aEgoism
650			_aPrisoners
650			_aWriter's block
650			_aFiction
650			_a Satire
650			_aLove, relationship
942			_2ddc _cBK