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An accidental man

Austin Gibson Grey survives by the destruction of others, and his efforts are to be directed against his successful elder brother, and all the woman who believe that they alone can save him.

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  • "An accidental man"@it
  • "Mann unter vielen"

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  • "The accidental man, one of those people who need to survive through the destruction of others; the others include Austin's successful elder brother and the many women who are so convinced that they can save him."
  • ""Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of."--Back cover."
  • "Austin Gibson Grey survives by the destruction of others, and his efforts are to be directed against his successful elder brother, and all the woman who believe that they alone can save him."@en
  • "Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of.-Back cover."@en
  • "This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can 'save' him. In this latter role we meet Austin's estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, and Austin's far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin's fate, with hilarious and appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope and variety in which Iris Murdoch's astonishing fertility of mind and unerring narrative skill are most felicitously combined."
  • "A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of. What is duty here, what is self-interest, what is cowardice' Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man of the title, is accident-prone, also prone to bring disaster to his friend sand relations. He blames fate. But are we not all accidental, one of his victims asks. Fate and accidents make deep moral dilemmas for the characters in the long and complex tale."@en
  • "Roman over een man die bij alles wat hem overkomt telkens weer rekent op de hulp van anderen, waarbij zijn helpers de klappen krijgen en hijzelf steeds ongedeerd uit de strijd te voorschijn komt."

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  • "General fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Didactic fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"

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  • "An Accidental man : Iris Murdoch"
  • "An accidental man / Iris Murdoch"
  • "Accidental Man, An"
  • "Przypadkowy człowiek"@pl
  • "Un homme a catastrophes"
  • "An accidental man : [novel]"
  • "Een ongeluk bij een ongeluk"
  • "Un homme à catastrophes : roman"
  • "An accidential man"
  • "Chelovek sluchaĭnosteĭ"
  • "Ein Mann unter vielen : Roman"
  • "An Accidental man"
  • "Un homme à catastrophes"
  • "Ein Mannünter vielen : Roman"
  • "An accidental man"
  • "An accidental man"@en
  • "An accidental man, [by] Iris Murdoch"
  • "Un uomo accidentale"@it
  • "Un uomo accidentale"
  • "Chelovek sluchaĭnosteĭ : roman"
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  • "Tilfældighedens spil"
  • "An Accidental Man"

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