The Comforters
(Hardback, Centenary Edition)
Available Formats
Publishing Details
The Comforters
By (Author) Muriel Spark
Introduction by Allan Massie
Series edited by Alan Taylor
Birlinn General
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
16th November 2017
16th November 2017
Centenary Edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Hardback
208
368g
Description
Caroline Rose has a problem. She hears voices and the incessant tapping of typewriter keys, and she seems to be a character in a novel . . . A comedy of errors, a crime novel, a book about books, Spark's debut remains as otherworldly and mischievous as it was when first published sixty years ago.
This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.
Reviews
'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world'
-- Julian Clary * Daily Mail *Author Bio
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.
Allan Massie CBE (born 1938) is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has lived in the Scottish Borders for the last twenty-five years.
