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The Bachelors
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented - defrauded, stolen from, blackmailed, or pressed to attend horrid séances - and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits. At the center of that suit hovers pale, blank Patrick Seton, the medium.
Meanwhile, horrors of every size plague the poor bachelors - from epileptic fits to forgeries, spiritualists foaming with protoplasm, and murder - and each horror delights, lit up by Spark's uncanny wit, at once malicious, funny, and deadly serious.
Critic reviews
"One 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." ( The New Yorker)
"Incomparable reader May's gentle British accent perfectly animates The Bachelors, a novel of sophisticated wit." ( Booklist)
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- Lins
- 22-10-22
Another brilliant story
Such a brilliant observation about people we wouldn’t think about in the everyday of our life’s.
Muriel Spark is a genius.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-12-21
BRIGHT SPARK
My third MS in a row. Undoubtedly a very superior author and the narration does it justice. I was appalled at the treatment of epilepsy but that’s how it was. Some quite modern themes. Re reading her after forty years I still appreciate her wit but also find it crueller than before. Obviously some political incorrectness too.
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- Pamela
- 15-06-22
Wearisome and Ridiculous
Something wearisome after a while about the nastiness, the positively vindictive scorn, of Spark's vision: and revisiting her work after many years is the overall texture of her work. Maybe when I was younger I was more influenced by the feeling that I should like an author. Now, I see, that yes, Spark can write, but her plots are thin, the people and situations repetitive.
There is an extraordinary lack of any hint of tenderness, humanity, or compassion in any character or indeed an individual. , Even a savage satirist like Evelyn Waugh possessed these things and enriched characters by this as people are a mix.
Her slant on the world is so relentlessly contemptuous that after a while it is as predictable as the sort of mushy sentimentality she probably despised. As in the other books I have revisited there is always an arrogant egotist behind the manipulation of her puppet-like characters.
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- Nicky Ramone
- 23-04-22
I loved it
This was my fourth of fifth Muriel Spark audiobook, and this was as good as the others.
The stories are so straightforward and engrossing you can easily imagine them, and this one, as superior TV dramas.
You feel a bit of an eavesdropper nosey parker getting so interested in these characters’ lives and where the author decides to take them.
Very entertaining light listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-12-22
A good listen
I enjoyed this short but pithy as always nicely read without undue emphases interesting and entertaining
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