{"product_id":"the-bachelors","title":"The Bachelors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors \u003c\/i\u003edisplays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's easy to see why Waugh admired \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors\u003c\/i\u003e. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the comedy here is serious in a way that Waugh's satanically energetic comedies of misery rarely are . . . comedies of English manners have seldom been darker' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive' John Updike, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muriel Spark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51434463854808,"sku":"9781782117551","price":22.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781782117551.jpg?v=1772473813","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/the-bachelors","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}