Elegy for Iris

Part 0 Of One Parts"I was living in a fairy story - the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending - in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So writes J [...]
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Part 0 Of One Parts"I was living in a fairy story - the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending - in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So writes John Bayley about his wife, Iris Murdoch, the eminent novelist and philosopher, who died at age 79 of Alzheimer's disease. With great compassion he re-creates their life together and poignantly describes the mask that descended over Iris's being with the progression of her disease. It is Bayley's accomplishment to find the glimmers of Iris's old self that break through the barriers, and to share with us his message of hope and joy. Tolstoyan in its grasp of life's frailty, and mesmerizing in its portrayal of one of the great literary romances of this century, ELEGY FOR IRIS is a consummate work of art."ELEGY FOR IRIS is beautiful and heartbreaking...a love poem writ in melancholy, an ode to the past and the stratosphere of commitment that such a past ensures." (Boston Globe)