The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Author:Iris Murdoch [From New York Times Book Review on back cover] — Iris Murdoch's latest [1974] novel tackles one of the most well-worn of all subjects: a man and two women, with the man tord by unresolvable conflicts of love and duty and preference.... She handles this theme with such power and authority as to make one feel that one is reading about it for the f... more »irst time. The depth at which she analyzes character, the unflinching steadiness of her gaze even on horror and obsession, can help us live....« less