The Good Apprentice (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
by:
Iris Murdoch (author)
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father,...
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Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141186689 (0141186682)
ASIN: 0141186682
Publish date: 2001-12-01
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Fiction
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[These notes were made in 1987:]. Like all Murdochs, this is a tremendously involved and complex novel, but there is at least emotional unity to it - or perhaps I am merely more attuned to this unity than I have been in her earlier stuff. This novel is about grief and loss - living through it, surv...
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