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The nice and the good / Iris Murdoch

By:

Murdoch, Iris

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, : Penguin Books , 1978, c1968.Description: 362 p. ; 21 cmGenre/Form:

Didactic fiction

DDC classification:

FIC MUR

LOC classification:

PZ4.M974 Ni PR6063.U7

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015828

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.

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