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Intrigue and humor combine brilliantly in this lively satire about the exploits of a circle of bachelors with time on their hands and the trial of a spiritualist medium accused of fraud. The London Times Literary Supplement calls Muriel Spark "the best English novelist writing today." Previously published in Penguin paperback, but out of print since 1987.
- Sales Rank: #2518854 in Books
- Published on: 1992-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.25" w x .75" l,
- Binding: Paperback
From Library Journal
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.
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Review
A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas
About the Author
The writer of some of the best sentences in English (The New Yorker), Muriel Spark (1918 2006) was the author of dozens of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Driver s Seat. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
Wanda McCaddon has won more than twenty-five AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, for which she also earned a coveted Audie Award. AudioFile magazine has also named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Contentedly Charming To Variously Tormented
By prisrob
"Daylight was appearing over London, the great city of bachelors" is the fist sentence of Muriel Sparks's book, "The Bachelors". The areas of London that had the greatest concentration of bachelors were Queen's Gate, Kensington and King's Road. Places all near the center of the shopping district.
The very British bachelors in this novel, a barrister, a councilman, a detective, an unusual priest, a spiritual medium, a handwriting expert, a man with uncontrolled seizures, and a man who eats onions to ward off advances from women, all well developed characters in this novel.
All start out on a Saturday morn, organizing their food shopping with their meal planning, and who will cook and clean for them.
They are all drawn in eventually into the social register of the group, and into the spiritual atmosphere of the medium, Patrick Seton.
Patrick Seton, a man who is a well known fraud to some. A man with little or no conscience and a man who will draw all of these bachelors into a lawsuit. Is Patrick Seton so demonized that he would try to kill his diabetic, pregnant girlfriend? So thinks the physician who is being blackmailed by Mr. Seton. Ahh, but what of this woman who is so in love with Mr. Seton? Is she a silly girl who will do anything for the love of he man?
Are any of these bachelors really in love with their women, or do they need them for other nefarious reasons? What are their motives? How will this man Patrick Seton confuse their spirits and their lives?
Dame Muriel Sparks was born in 1918, and in a few months her 26th novel will be published. She is a well beloved novelist from England. She writes of the dark, terrifying, evilness of the human spirit; and the deadpan humor of the human experience. This is a novel to be relished and to be read again to really experience the malevolence of the human mind. prisrob
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good vs. Evil?
By Randall L. Wilson
This novel comes right after Memento Mori, the first Spark novel I ever read. It has a similar structure in that an extended group of characters all revolve around a single experience. In this case with the possible trial of a spiritualist and in Memento Mori with prank calls of an unsettling nature. Like in Memento Mori where we are never told who pranks the oldsters with the phone calls of “Remember You Must Die,” we aren’t convinced that the Spiritualist in question is an utter fraud.
One of Spark’s charms is that her vision and its exploration take precedence over assisting the reader through the thicket of characters she creates. For example, many of her characters flit in and out of scenes without making much of an impact. They are little more than a name and relationship to another character. Maybe there is a hook like the drunken outrageousness of art critic Walter Prett but a character like Tim Ewart is nothing more than resistance to his Aunt Marlene desire to make him an alibi witness for Patrick the criminal spiritualist.
But these characters aren’t superfluous or stick figures. You trust her confidence in what she writes about them. In this 200 page novel there are almost 20 named characters with perhaps half a dozen that standout from the others. They form a community with quirks and standards and a range of reactions to various other characters and their behavior.
Spark doesn’t ‘expose’ spiritualism but she does doubt its many adherents. She was a converted Catholic and while she gives the spiritualist Patrick the benefit of the gifted doubt, she clearly doesn’t believe spiritualism unmoored to a religious conviction is necessarily a helpful world view. In this novel and elsewhere Spark explores evil but doesn’t give it agency outside of the human experience. Patrick wants to murder his girlfriend Alice because he doesn’t want to father her child. But while he has formed an evil intent, his plan is far removed from his daily life and is contingent on his not getting convicted and imprisoned for fraudulent ways.
I have a preference for Spark’s earlier novels because I see how she wrestles with the big themes that are still fresh for her as a converted Catholic. There are many things to admire about Muriel Spark; her innate vision, her drive to work in a profession not welcoming of women and her wicked sense of humor. But I think her vision is so singular because of her conversion to Catholicism. For all the lightness in her prose, she is a deep and profound thinker and grappled heavily with the meaning of life. These early novels are still wrestling with the aftermath of that experience.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
PUPPET-MISTRESS
By DAVID BRYSON
The scene is a London courtroom where a spiritualist medium is on trial for defrauding a widow of her life savings. One of the main prosecution witnesses is a handwriting expert who suffers from epilepsy. Under questioning he suffers a seizure and the judge asks `Is this man a medium?' It's very clever, in this instance it's very funny, and it's more than slightly heartless. It is the distinctive individual tone of Muriel Spark.
This is one of her best. I found I had to be very alert and attentive or I was liable to miss some new element lightly thrown into the plot without warning. Muriel Spark's touch is as light as thistledown. The characters in The Bachelors are a down-in-the-mouth lot, ranging from nondescript to squalid, but the author typically stays above, or at least outside, their dreary lightless existence. Thinking back over the book, I can't recall anything that I would classify as a single noble thought or piece of lofty motivation. The theme of bachelordom is not really central to the action, more a storyteller's device to help maintain a sense of unity in the narrative. One has to admire the sheer skill with which she keeps control of such a large cast and so many convoluted situations. The characters talk non-stop - virtually all of the book is between quotation-marks - and we have to get to know them, except in two instances, through what they say, not through what they think by themselves. In one of these cases we get a startling insight into what the medium is really pondering and planning, startling because of the way it contrasts with the idiom of the book generally at least as much as because of the nature of his mind. In the other instance a doctor who hardly features at all in the dialogue shines a moment's blinding light through the encircling murk.
The many characters are lively and convincing, their individuality beautifully touched in through subtle little touches that you will be liable to miss if your attention falters even for a moment. Despite that they have a feel of human puppets about them, a show put on for us by a clear-headed, clever, elegant and rather cold-hearted puppeteer. It may be that Muriel Spark is herself putting on an act by letting herself appear in such a light. My own feeling is that she is not minded to resolve that question for us - we can view her how we like for all she seems to care. I like her just the way she chooses to be.
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