The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Muriel Spark

One of the funniest books I have ever read …. far and away our best woman novelist.

Penelope Mortimer

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Fiction by Muriel Spark

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do “human research” into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. “Not only funny but startlingly original,” declared The Washington Post, “the legendary character of Dougal Douglas…may not have been boasting when he referred so blithely to his association with the devil.” In fact this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director. The Ballad of Peckham Rye presents Dame Muriel Spark at her most devilishly piquant.

Paperback(published May, 01 1999)

ISBN
9780811214087
Price US
11.95
Page Count
144

Ebook(published May, 01 1999)

ISBN
9780811221337
Price US
11.95
Portrait of Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

20th century Scottish novelist, poet and essayist

One of the funniest books I have ever read …. far and away our best woman novelist.

Penelope Mortimer