A Perfectly Good Man

图书信息

作者	Patrick Gale
出版社	Fourth Estate
ISBN	9780007467068
出版时间	2012-03-01
字数	52.6万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller ‘Notes from an Exhibition’, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. "Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?” “I’m going to die.” “We’re all going to die. Does dying frighten you?” “I mean I’m going to kill myself.” When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest. The personal stories of his wife, children and lover illuminate Barnaby's ostensibly happy life, and the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby's repellent nemesis – a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous. Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale lays bare the lives and the thoughts of a whole community and asks us：what does it mean to be good?

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

Contents

Lenny at 20

Dorothy at 24

Barnaby at 60

Modest Carlsson at 39

Barnaby at 52

Dorothy at 34

Barnaby at 40

Carrie at 11

Barnaby at 29

Modest Carlsson at 55

Nuala at 36

Jim at 12

Barnaby at 21

Lenny at 14¾

Carrie at 35

Barnaby at 16

Modest Carlsson at 75

Phuc at 27

Nuala at 56

Barnaby at 8

Author’s Acknowledgments

Other Books by Patrick Gale

Copyright

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