Good Apprentice (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Iris Murdoch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099285258 ISBN 13: 9780099285250

Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE +, 2000

Synopsis

Young Edward Baltram's prank of giving his friend Mark Wilsden a drug-infused sandwich and his stepbrother Stuart's decision to forsake a promising academic career for social work bring consternation to their parents and elders

About this title

From the Publisher:

Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, explores the meaning of life in a story of love and betrayal, faith and doubt.

"Murdoch works with an intellectual daring most writers only dream of." - The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. She herself was also the recipient of many esteemed awards: Dame of the Order of the British Empire, the Royal Society of Literature's Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club's (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times' (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE +
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099285258
• ISBN 13: 9780099285250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 572