—The IndependentCompletely, searingly original.
Spark’s very British bachelors come in every stripe
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented — defrauded or stolen from; blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid séances; plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits. And every horror delights: each is lit up by Spark’s uncanny wit, at once funny and deadly serious.
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20th century Scottish novelist, poet and essayist
—The IndependentCompletely, searingly original.
—Maud Newton, SalonWitty, exacting, and wholly original.
—Library JournalSpark’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.
—The New RepublicThe Bachelors’ greatness is inherent in the reading.
—Stephen Schiff, New YorkerOne of the most decisive and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction… Spark concocts a present-tense deadpan that is at once lyrical, extravagant, and gruesomely funny.
