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The Nice and the Good

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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 Guardian

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140030341
  • ISBN-10: 0140030344
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: December 1978
  • Dimensions: 7.74 x 5.2 x 0.98 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.63 pounds
  • Page Count: 368
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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