The Nice and the Good - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140030344 ISBN 13 : 9780140030341

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1978

Synopsis

Book by Murdoch Iris

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Revue de presse :

"Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour" (The Times)

"Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century" (Guardian)

"Irish Murdoch's most versitile novel, and chief among them is the pleasure which the authors take in her characters" (Country Life)

"Just as Jane Austen defines moral categories like "sense" and "sensibility" in her novels, so Iris Murdoch creates new constellations of meaning around those stand-bys of ordinary language, the nice and the good" (Atlantic)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0140030344
• ISBN 13: 9780140030341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368