{"product_id":"the-bachelors-by-muriel-spark-9781782117551","title":"The Bachelors","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's easy to see why Waugh admired \u003cem\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/em\u003e. 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\" \u003cem\u003e- Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent – the creme de la creme\" - Ian Rankin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive\" - John Updike, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46552351703276,"sku":"9781782117551","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13876133482822.jpg?v=1750042100","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-bachelors-by-muriel-spark-9781782117551","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}