A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Book description
An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea
In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples,…
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1 author picked A Fairly Honourable Defeat as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This intricately plotted semi-comic, semi-tragic novel, riffing off Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, keeps the reader guessing to the end.
Simon and Axel are the best gay male couple in fiction, for my money, quirky; adorable; absolutely believable characters whose relationship the villain tries to destroy as he does several other relationships.
I love the story of how they first met, their erotic banter, their clothes, their food and wine, and the way they move towards being more open about their relationship.
From Ruth's list on lesbian and gay literary fiction.
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