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Book Description
"A brilliant entertainment." (Harold Bloom, The New York Times Book Review)
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 Continue
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lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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False Gods
In The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch’s twenty-second novel, the hero learns one of life’s most painful lessons: how the gods of youth turn out to be false. Real gods never make an appearance in The Good Apprentice but we are provided with several sel ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 522 Pages
- Edition: 1st American ed
- ISBN-10: 0670809403
- ISBN-13: 9780670809400
- Publisher: Viking Adult
- Pub date: Jan 20, 1986
- Also available as: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780670809400 | Hardcover | $18.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Serenamorini 
Take that white thing away
‘A novel must be a house,’ wrote Iris Murdoch in 1960, ‘fit for free characters to live in.’ The Good Apprentice carries within it an apt image of itself as a house. Seegard stands in a coastal fen within sight of the sea. Architecturally it is singu ... (read full critics)