Elegy for Iris /

Bayley, John, 1925-

Elegy for Iris / John Bayley. - New York : Picador USA, 1999. - 275 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and of aging and a clebration of a brilliant life and an undying love. So John Bayley descibes his life with his wife, Iris Mudoch who has Alzheimer's.

0312421117 (pbk.) 9780312421113 (pbk.)

Murdoch, Iris --Marriage. Bayley, John, 1925- --Marriage.

University of Oxford.


Women novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Women philosophers--Great Britain--Biography.
College teachers--Great Britain--Biography.
Married people--Great Britain--Biography.
Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Biography.
Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
Caregivers--Personal narratives.

PR6063.U7 / Z58 2000