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In Muriel Spark's fifth novel, a group of thirty-something bachelors - a barrister, a teacher, a journalist, a museum attendant, a graphologist whose career has been ruined by epilepsy, a man obsessed with sex but riddled with religious guilt - roam around contentedly chatting in their London clubs. But soon enough, the men are variously tormented - defrauded or stolen from; blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid séances. Patrick Seton, blackmailer, extortionist and supposed medium, plunges these men into the nastiest of lawsuits when he is accused of defrauding a widow out of her life savings. And as he faces his upcoming trial, he begins to gleefully plot the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.
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"I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books" (EVELYN WAUGH)
"My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème" (IAN RANKIN)
"Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive" (JOHN UPDIKE New Yorker)
"The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso" (Daily Telegraph)
"A wholly original presence in modern literature" (ANDREW MOTION)
"A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas" (New York Times Book Review) --Evelyn Waugh
"She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius" (A N WILSON Spectator) --Spectator
"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) --New Yorker
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"My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème" (IAN RANKIN)
"Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive" (JOHN UPDIKE New Yorker)
"The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso" (Daily Telegraph)
"A wholly original presence in modern literature" (ANDREW MOTION)
"A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas" (New York Times Book Review) --Evelyn Waugh
"She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius" (A N WILSON Spectator) --Spectator
"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) --New Yorker
'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' Evelyn Waugh
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