The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to ‘bring vision into the lives of the workers’. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in wreaking havoc with the locals. Nervous breakdowns, sexual misdemeanours, a heart attack and murder ensue . . . This is Spark at her most ingenious.

The publishers acknowledge investment from Creative Scotland towards the publication of this book.

Supported by the Muriel Spark Society.

'The novel is wickedly funny, if cruelI prefer it to Spark’s The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie'

* Daily Mail, Best Books Ever, 2020 *

'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'

-- Julian Clary * Daily Mail *

'All of Muriel Spark's novels operate like small bombs, but this is her wittiest, most off-beat, and utterly startling' 

-- Frances Wilson, Award-winning biographer and literary critic

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. 

Ronald Frame was born in Glasgow in 1953, and educated there and at Oxford. He is the author of many works of fiction, including the Booker-longlisted The Lantern Bearers, and is an award-winning television and radio scriptwriter.

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ISBN 13	9781846974281
ISBN 10	1846974283
Title	The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Author	Muriel Spark
Series	The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2017-11-16
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.