The nice and the good
Murdoch, Iris
The nice and the good / Iris Murdoch - New York, : Penguin Books , 1978, c1968. - 362 p. ; 21 cm.
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 stagnant summer London, Octavian and Kate Gray's adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but eve 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. No one in the book is good.
68011412
Didactic fiction
PZ4.M974 PR6063.U7 / Ni
FIC MUR
The nice and the good / Iris Murdoch - New York, : Penguin Books , 1978, c1968. - 362 p. ; 21 cm.
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 stagnant summer London, Octavian and Kate Gray's adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but eve 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. No one in the book is good.
68011412
Didactic fiction
PZ4.M974 PR6063.U7 / Ni
FIC MUR
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