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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
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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
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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.
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The Good Apprentice
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1987
ISBN 10: 0140086994
ISBN 13: 9780140086997
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Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140086994
ISBN 13: 9780140086997
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Spine creased. Reading and shelf wear. Edges lightly tanned. Text unmarked. Not from a library. No remainder mark. No tears. 522 pages. 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 to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000000261
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