iris murdoch.....

ok, so the goodwill bookclub book of the week is the sea, the sea a novel by iris murdoch that won the booker prize in 1978....a detail that i failed to notice when i snatched it out of the goodwill bin.......and prize-winning is the prose....splendid and lush......though written through a man's eyes rather than through a woman's.......the setting is an aging seaside home, now the abode of a recently retired director/playwright/actor......who is just beginning to sense that living alone is not to his liking.....and he is revisiting memories of women he wouldn't have, or who wouldn't have him.....and he is fast running out of wine.......the novel is written blog-style, with a cadence quite familiar to me.....day be day....with no chapter deliniations......and i am totally entranced......a reading this marvelous piece of fiction rather than my lecture notes......ah well.........isn't that what life is all about?.......and now that i have gotten over being mad at jonathan franzen i can really get down to business.......but i digress from iris herself, who was described in wikipedia as self-absorbed and cruel.....but eventually withered on the vine from Alzheimer's...as portrayed in the movie iris that won jim broadbent an academy award for playing her long-suffering spouse.......iris was played by dame judy densch.......sadly, when i slip into senility dame judy will turn down my film role, given that she will be far too old....so sorry dame judy............