Elegy for Iris

by John Bayley · first published 1999

Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley. In it, he recounts his forty-two year marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch and her struggles with Alzheimer's disease in the last years of her life. It is a companion book to Bayley's other works about Murdoch: Iris and Her Friends and Widower's House. For The New York Times, Mary Gordon wrote that Bayley's narrative is "a continuing act of heroic love, but the heroism plays itself out in a register that is unfamiliar to contemporary audiences, particularly American ones.

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1999