Henry And Cato
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Two men stand at the edge of transformation — one fleeing a life he never wanted, the other surrendering the one he thought he had. Henry and Cato is a razor-sharp novel of moral crisis, friendship, and spiritual reckoning, set against the backdrop of crumbling English estates and the gritty streets of London. Henry Marshalson returns from America believing he has inherited his family's ancestral home, only to find his ambitions entangled with guilt, desire, and a violent confrontation with the past. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Cato, a Catholic priest, is drawn into a dangerous obsession with a young street criminal, forcing him to question the very foundations of his faith. Iris Murdoch, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, constructs a web of philosophical intensity and psychological acuity that is both intellectually rigorous and compulsively readable. Her prose illuminates the tension between freedom and responsibility, sacred devotion and profane longing, with a precision that few novelists can match. Henry and Cato stands as a masterwork of post-war British fiction — a novel that leaves its characters, and its readers, irrevocably changed.
Author: Iris Murdoch
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Two men stand at the edge of transformation — one fleeing a life he never wanted, the other surrendering the one he thought he had. Henry and Cato is a razor-sharp novel of moral crisis, friendship, and spiritual reckoning, set against the backdrop of crumbling English estates and the gritty streets of London. Henry Marshalson returns from America believing he has inherited his family's ancestral home, only to find his ambitions entangled with guilt, desire, and a violent confrontation with the past. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Cato, a Catholic priest, is drawn into a dangerous obsession with a young street criminal, forcing him to question the very foundations of his faith. Iris Murdoch, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, constructs a web of philosophical intensity and psychological acuity that is both intellectually rigorous and compulsively readable. Her prose illuminates the tension between freedom and responsibility, sacred devotion and profane longing, with a precision that few novelists can match. Henry and Cato stands as a masterwork of post-war British fiction — a novel that leaves its characters, and its readers, irrevocably changed.