Good Apprentice Tapa blanda - 1987

Paperback. Acceptable.

Penguin Books. Used - Acceptable. Paperback The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1986. Paperback. Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1986. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Slight bump to top of spine. ; First printing of Penguin mass market edition, 1986. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Louise Brierley. ; 528 pages; A serious yet funny novel about trying to be good. Stuart Cuno wishes to become good, like a prest but without God, giving up a promising academic career much to the bewilderment of friends and family who question his motives and his sanity. Meanwhile, Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend due to a practical joke that goes badly wrong. Edward's quest for atonement will lead him to a beautiful and ambiguous house of enlightenment, Seegard, the family home, away from the harsh reality of London. .

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1987. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Group, 1987. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: 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.

New York, NY: Penguin, 1986. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Bright, clean w/ftrace margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/light edge wear, faint creasing to lower back corner, & trace soiling. First published 1985. Dame Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) in 3 parts: I, The Prodigal Son; II, Seegard; and, III, Life After Death. A tragiscomedy of seeking to be good --- Edward Baltram seeks atonement for causing his best friend's death, while step-brother Stuart Cuno wants to be good, like a priest, but without God. At Seegard, "a beautiful and ambiguous house of enlightenment", Edward meets his natural father, and Stuart plays a role.