Saturday, April 26, 2014

Muriel Spark’s ‘The Bachelors’ Takes on the British Bros of 1960

Flavorwire Author Club: Muriel Spark's 'The Bachelors' Takes on the British Bros of 1960

Flavorwire Author Club: Muriel Spark’s ‘The Bachelors’ Takes on the British Bros of 1960

Featuring “a barrister, a ‘priest,’ a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium,” the text on the back cover of my copy of Muriel Spark’s The Bachelors sounds like it should be heading towards the words, “walk into a bar,” but it isn’t. 
Even though the synopsis for The Bachelors doesn’t provide any obvious punchlines, the book released a year before her most well-known work, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, is a dryly humorous romp that skewers the type of man-child characters we see in so many films these days. … Read More

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