The Nice and the Good - Paperback
by Iris Murdoch
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140030341ISBN-10:140030344UPC:9780140030341Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.74 x 5.20 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SC64156HMK
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good. John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray's adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of violence poison an atmosphere already electric with adolescent quarrels and intrigue. After a swim into the underworld, Ducane begins to realize that niceness is not enough. "A feast."--The Guardian
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780140030341ISBN-10:140030344UPC:9780140030341Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.74 x 5.20 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SC64156HMK
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry.
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
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