The Bachelors: Novel (New Directions Classic) - Softcover

Spark, Muriel

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9780811214247: The Bachelors: Novel (New Directions Classic)

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ISBN 10: 0811214249 ISBN 13: 9780811214247

Publisher: New Directions, 1999

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A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium ― the very British bachelors of Spark's novel come in every stripe

First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented ― defrauded or stolen from; blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid s�ances ― and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium. Meanwhile, horrors of every size plague the poor bachelors ― from the rising price of frozen peas ("Your hand's never out of your pocket") to epileptic fits, forgeries, spiritualists foaming with protoplasm, and murder. And every horror delights: each is lit up by Spark's uncanny wit ― at once malicious, funny, and deadly serious. The Bachelors shows "the most gifted and innovative British novelist" (The New York Times) at her wicked best.

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'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' Evelyn Waugh

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About the Author:

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

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