Iris and Her Friends (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Bayley
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to 1990’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Marriage, Friendship, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Death or dying, Alzheimer’s disease
- Locales: England
Iris and Her Friends is the second of two books published in 1999 by John Bayley, a well-known English author and Oxford don. Both books were prompted by his wife’s gradual descent into Alzheimer’s disease. Elegy for Iris tells the story of Bayley’s intellectual partnership and intimate relationship with his wife, Iris Murdoch, who was suffering from the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The story is painful because she was at the height of her prolific career as one of the greatest English novelists of the twentieth century when she was stricken with the disease....
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