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The Message to the Planet

by Iris Murdoch · 1989

Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, explores the meaning of life in a story of love and betrayal, faith and doubt. "Murdoch works with an intellectual daring most writers only dream of".—The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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