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The Bachelors

English

By (author): Muriel Spark

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.

'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have seldom been darker' Daily Telegraph

'My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème' Ian Rankin

'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive' John Updike, New Yorker

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Product Details
  • Weight: 164g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Dec 2015
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781782117551

About Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark DBE C.Litt. was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist she also wrote children's books radio plays the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures including Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards including the David Cohen Prize for Literature the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award the James Tait Black Memorial Prize the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature the Gold Pen Award the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.

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