The Red And The Green
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Dublin in the days leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916, The Red and the Green is a masterful novel of passion, loyalty, and divided allegiance. At its centre is Andrew Chase-White, a young Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, whose return to his extended family in Ireland draws him into a web of romantic rivalries, conflicting identities, and the inexorable pull of Irish nationalism — forces that will irrevocably alter every life they touch. Iris Murdoch, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and intellectually formidable novelists, uses the political fracture of Ireland as a mirror for the moral and psychological fractures within her characters. With her characteristically precise and penetrating prose, she chronicles the collision between duty and desire, between the green of Irish republican fervour and the red of British imperial loyalty, building to a conclusion that is as devastating as it is inevitable. Rich with moral ambiguity and psychological depth, this novel leaves the reader questioning where loyalty truly ends and betrayal begins.
Author: Iris Murdoch
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Dublin in the days leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916, The Red and the Green is a masterful novel of passion, loyalty, and divided allegiance. At its centre is Andrew Chase-White, a young Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, whose return to his extended family in Ireland draws him into a web of romantic rivalries, conflicting identities, and the inexorable pull of Irish nationalism — forces that will irrevocably alter every life they touch. Iris Murdoch, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and intellectually formidable novelists, uses the political fracture of Ireland as a mirror for the moral and psychological fractures within her characters. With her characteristically precise and penetrating prose, she chronicles the collision between duty and desire, between the green of Irish republican fervour and the red of British imperial loyalty, building to a conclusion that is as devastating as it is inevitable. Rich with moral ambiguity and psychological depth, this novel leaves the reader questioning where loyalty truly ends and betrayal begins.