Bachelors

AvMuriel Spark

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He’s been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London’s bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the ‘cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark’s clever and elegant books’, The Bachelors is a biting comedy of English manners.This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-02-08
Mått:140 x 205 x 25 mm
Vikt:378 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Birlinn General
ISBN:9781846974298

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Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.James Campbell was born in Glasgow in 1951 and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He is a former editor of the New Edinburgh Review, writes for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, and is the author of several books including This Is the Beat Generation and Syncopation.

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'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit — ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'