The Ballad of Peckham Rye (New Directions Classics) - Softcover

Spark, Muriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214087 ISBN 13: 9780811214087

Publisher: New Directions, 2007

Synopsis

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 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."

About this title

Review

"The best English novelist writing today".-- (London) Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811214087
• ISBN 13: 9780811214087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142