TEE RED AND THE GREEN

by Iris Murdoch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1965

Usually cool, witty and savage, Irish-born Miss Murdoch reveals some soft spots in her armor in this novel about a complex Irish family, Just before the Easter uprising in Dublin, 1916. Young Andrew, about to be engaged, is in the English cavalry; the cousin he admires, Pat, is secretly a member of the rebels. Andrew's father-in-law to be is trying to force their free-spirited, impoverished aunt, Lady Millicent, into marriage; while Pat's step-father, expelled from the priesthood because of Millie, still moons after her. Their plans are changed when the four men coincide in Millie's house one night, while she is seducing Andrew. Pat goes off to the uprising; an epilogue tells what happened to them all. The two plots have very little to do with each other, since Millie has destroyed most of the men before the fighting starts. Nostalgia may have occasionally deepened Miss Murdoch's sense of character, but it has muddled the story with conflicting intentions and tones.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1965

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1965

Categories: FICTION