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Titel: Jackson’s Dilemma
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ISBN: 0701165111
Förlag: Chatto & Windus
Utgivningsår: 1995
Språk: Engelska
Bandtyp: Inbunden med skyddsomslag.
Skick: Mycket gott skick – något nötta ryggändar; svagt nötta hörn; något gulnade snitt och inlaga. Skyddsomslag i mycket gott skick – något veckade och nötta ryggändar; svaga veck längs kanterna.
A most remarkable event occurs as family and friends gather for a country wedding. On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions.
This was Murdoch’s last novel; she died four years later, on 8 February 1999. In her final years, Murdoch was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, one of the symptoms of which is a reduced vocabulary and decreased word fluency. Researchers at University College London found in 2004 that the language used in Jackson’s Dilemma is noticeably simpler than in her earlier works. They suggested that the novel – written in longhand, with few revisions and little room for editorial interference – offers a ”unique opportunity” to study the effects of Alzheimer’s on spontaneous writing.
