The Red and the Green Author:Iris Murdoch In this story of an Irish family during the seven or eight tense days leading up to the doomed Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, Iris Murdoch attains new stature as a novelist....This is Iris Murdoch with a difference. There is more warmth and compassion here than in anything else she has written. And there is uncanny insight into the Irish charac... more »ter, with all its prudery and passion, its idealism and vulgarity.« less