
The Good Conscience
Carlos Fuentes(Author)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-0-374-50736-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak; his uncle is powerful, yet his actions are inconsistent with his professed beliefs. Jaime's struggle to emerge as a man with a "good conscience" forms the theme of the book: can a rebel correct the evils of an established system and at the same time retain the integrity of his principles?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
206 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-50736-7 (9780374507367)
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05/2013
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Persons
Carlos Fuentes; Translated by Sam Hileman