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 GuardianAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 12/14/1978
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.20w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780140030341
Language: English
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