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Author: Rivka Isaacson

‘It depends on the liver’: Alcoholism, Detoxification, Regeneration and Wound-healing in A Fairly Honourable Defeat

‘It depends on the liver’: Alcoholism, Detoxification, Regeneration and Wound-healing in A Fairly Honourable Defeat

15 November 2024By Rivka IsaacsonBlog

What makes a novel alcoholic? In light of the above admission about my 2017 thought process, I deduced that I had not made a thorough enough case for choosing A Fairly Honourable Defeat as the tie-in for liver disease and decided to conduct some qualitative research to find out which is Iris Murdoch’s most alcoholic novel.

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