BIB_ID
345519
Accession number
MA 8399.1
Creator
Murdoch, Iris.
Display Date
1986 Oct. 27.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 10.6 x 15 cm
Notes
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel An Artist of the Floating World was shortlisted for the Booker in 1986, but Kingsley Amis' novel The Old Devils was awarded the prize.
Location and date of writing inferred from postmark.
Part of a small collection of letters of Iris Murdoch to various recipients.
With a photographic reproduction of a nun walking in front of The Marble City Bar on the verso.
With stamps and postmark and addressed to Miss Locke in Sutton.
Location and date of writing inferred from postmark.
Part of a small collection of letters of Iris Murdoch to various recipients.
With a photographic reproduction of a nun walking in front of The Marble City Bar on the verso.
With stamps and postmark and addressed to Miss Locke in Sutton.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
Writing in regards to the Booker Prize, saying she is sorry "about your Japanese favourite" [Kazuo Ishiguro] and remarking "I wasn't too crazy about Kingsley's work, yet I am quite crazy about Kingsley."
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