The nice and the good / Iris Murdoch ; with an introduction by Catherine Bates.
Språk: Engelska Serie: Vintage classicsUtgivningsuppgift: London : Vintage, 2000Beskrivning: xvi, 350 pages 20 cmInnehållstyp:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0099285266
- 9780099285267
- 823.914 21
- PR6063.U74
- He.01
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A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable - prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate.
Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly - and unsuccessfully - to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to Gray's Dorset home everything becomes even more mysterious and nothing is quite as it seems.
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1968.
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal: - the nice and the good - as they are embodied in a fascinating array of paired characters. 'The Nice and the Good' leads through stress and terror to a joyous and compassionate 'Midsummer Nights Dream' conclusion, in which the couples all sort themselves out neatly and omnia vincit amor.
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