| The Nice and the Good Contributor(s): Murdoch, Iris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140030344 ISBN-13: 9780140030341 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99707250 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.2" W x 7.74" (0.63 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |