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A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945
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A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945
Current price: $52.00
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A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945
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These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds new light on a brilliant young mind ("sharp and polished as a sword" as Frances Wilson describes it), while painting a vivid picture of life during the Second World War.