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Book Description
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram isContinue
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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
- eBook 576 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1407019759
- ISBN-13: 9781407019758
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Oct 31, 2010
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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Brian Hamilton 
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)