num_pages: 416
description: A story about being in love The Black Prince is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involuted plot, and a meditation on the nature of art and love and the deity who rules over both. Bradley Pearson, its narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Encompassed by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother and a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, together with Baffin's restless wife and youthful daughter - Bradley attempts escape. His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a shifting perspective on all that has gone before.
language: English
title: The Black Prince
titlecomplete: The Black Prince
characters: Christian Hartbourne, Julian Belling, Bradley Pearson, Rachel Baffin, Francis Marloe, Arnold Baffin
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 5744
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: VINTAGE CLASSICS