The Ballad of Peckham Rye
A Literature, Novels, Fiction book. Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life....
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the...
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- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780141188355 / 141188359
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Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye //
Witty, worldy, charming, irreverent, imaginitive, playful and only slightly bitter, this novel would make an excellent dinner companion but perhaps not such a good life partner. It's certainly too frivolous for the "seriuos reader" but it was the Baby Bear's porridge of frivolity for me. The devil rides out: a leading textile manufacturer wishes to introduce its workforce to the Arts and so hires Dougal Douglas MA (Edin) to bring culcha to the masses. Instead, Dougal gives devil-worship, wide-swapping, murder and other assorted mayhem to the lower middles and aspiring working classes of SE15. A lot may have changed... Vuoi tu prendere questa donna come tua legittima sposa?.No, rispose Humphrey francamente no.L'aggettivo pi indicato per questo libro potrebbe essere: bizzarro.Muriel Spark imbastisce una commedia ricca di humor inglese ambientandola nella Londra degli anni '60, una Londra industrializzata e sempre pi attenta alla situazione degli impiegati....
