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    <body><![CDATA[I can't decide about this book.  I felt uneasy with some parts--that Bayley kept on saying that Iris' greatness as an author was like Shakespeare's, for one.  There were some elements of puffing IM at her height in an oddly self-serving way (&quot;I am after all the spouse of a 'great' writer.)  I n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52375782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Alzheimer stuff is a bit of a downer. But this is brilliant; real love. I wish she was my friend!: <br/><br/>&quot;She wanted to have her friends, each of them, for themselves; she wanted them to know her in the same pristine way. No groups, no sets. No comparing of notes between two about a t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30154167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful read! You feel intrusive at times, and you wonder what right you have to listen in on their conversations, etc. But it's a great portrait of a person and the time and place she lived in. The film is great, too!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it's a stream of consciousness trip through his memories of his wife, more affectionate than melancholic. and though the blurb and quotes describe it as the ultimate love story, actually what comes through is the solidity of the relationship built through acceptances of what they meant to each other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23706401">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An extraordinary book that offers so much insite into the art of writing a memoir, the struggles when dealing with Alzheimers Disease, and the relationship between husband and wife. I was sorry when I got to the end and there was no more to read. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <em>&quot;Like being chained to a corpse, isn't it?&quot;</em> </blockquote> This is a memoir, not a biography, with obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor of  English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author, have been married for more than 45  years. She has shown the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four years. The  words quoted above were not, needless to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience that can  no longer be shared except with those outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he copes,  rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs the boundaries of past and present as he describes the  marriage of two brilliant intellectuals, determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine and  water (they are serial dippers) throughout Europe as they serenely move &quot;closer and closer  apart&quot;.  <p> When Iris's intellect deteriorates her dependency inevitably increases, and they are &quot;sailing into  the dark&quot; (her words) until the end of the book, when Bayley contends that the voyage is over,  and they have both arrived somewhere. It is the spiritual answer to her perpetual question: &quot;When  are we going?&quot;, and provides a quietly uplifting resolution. John Bayley has written a magnificent  paean to their love. Without underplaying the realities of living with someone with Alzheimer's, he  writes in a moving and dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman rather than a condition,  who is still every bit his wife, if even more his dependent. He believes that their marriage released  the child in Iris; now they watch Teletubbies together, wordlessly secure. --<em>David Vincent</em></p>]]>
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