The Good Apprentice - Couverture souple

Murdoch, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140086994 ISBN 13 : 9780140086997

Editeur : Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

522 pages. Bon état Couv. convenable Intérieur acceptable In-12 Carré Broché A very serious, and funny, novel about trying to be good. Cover by Louise Brierley.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. She herself was also the recipient of many esteemed awards: Dame of the Order of the British Empire, the Royal Society of Literature's Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club's (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times' (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140086994
• ISBN 13: 9780140086997
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible