The Bachelors

by Muriel Spark

Overview

Spark’s very British bachelors come in every stripe

First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, 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 séances — and then plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811222983
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/27/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	553,427
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

Spark's 1960 novel follows a group of British bachelors whose cozy little world is shattered when they suddenly find themselves the target of blackmail, fraud, and other bits of nastiness courtesy of one of the lads. Spark is always a great read. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius

Spectator - A N WILSON

Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit

New Yorker

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

IAN RANKIN

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

EVELYN WAUGH

It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have rarely been darker

Daily Telegraph

A wholly original presence in modern literature

ANDREW MOTION

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

New Yorker - John Updike

A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas

New York Times Book Review