The Nice and the Good
- ISBN-10
- 0140030344
- ISBN-13
- 9780140030341
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-12-14
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
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
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