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 | Elegy for Iris (1st Edition) by John Bayley Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-312-25382-6 / 0312253826 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-25382-0 / 9780312253820 In one of literary history's ghastlier ironies, Iris Murdoch, the author of such highly intellectual and philosophical novels as A Severed Head and Under the Net, was diagnosed in 1994 with Alzheimer's disease, which slowly destroys reasoning powers, memory, even the ability to speak coherently. | |