The Comforters

by Muriel Spark

Overview

Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut

With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811223003
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/27/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,011,266
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

Editorial Reviews

Spark's 1957 first novel caused quite a stir among the critics, who found her a novelist worth watching. Nearly 30 years later, one can say positively that they were right. Her many fans will be happy to see this again.

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