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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 at her most artful, juggling philosophy and farce with knowledge and ease." --"Economist"
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Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives.
Stuart's stepbrother, Edward Baltram, is tormented by guilt, believing that he has killed his best friend. He dreams of both redemption and suicide. He is sent on a 'journey to the underworld' to find his natural father, the painter Jesse Baltram, whom he has not seen since childhood. He discovers a father strangely different from his expectations, full of the magic of forgiveness.
Meanwhile, Stuart's moral apprenticeship is causing nothing but trouble. Coming to rescue Edward, Stuart provokes a final catastrophic clash of forces.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint; First Printing. 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. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 27612
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 3rd Printing. 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. Seller Inventory # 008406