Ebook {Epub PDF} The Comforters by Muriel Spark

The Comforters was the debut novel of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie author Muriel Spark and while it's not a masterpiece, one can see why it was regarded as an impressive first book. The story revolves around a young woman named Caroline Rose, who begins hearing a voice, accompanied by /5(42). The Comforters was Muriel Spark’s first novel published when she was nearly forty, she had only begun writing seriously after the Second World War. Spark, had previously suffered from hallucinations, and she brings this experience and her recent conversion to Catholicism to her extraordinary debut/5(). The Comforters was the debut novel of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie author Muriel Spark and while it's not a masterpiece, one can see why it was regarded as an impressive first book. The story revolves around a young woman named Caroline Rose, who begins hearing a voice, accompanied by /5(63).

The Comforters Fiction by Muriel Spark Delicious for its wit and poise, The Comforters () was a stunning debut. With her now signature air of easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things — blackmail, drownings, breakdowns, human evil. The Comforters, Muriel Spark's first novel, was a brilliant blast against the realist fashion of its day. It treats madness and evil with the mirthful lightness that would become the hallmark of. The Comforters was the first of the 22 novels Muriel Spark would write over nearly 50 years, the first of what would become her recognisable but inimitable oeuvre of slim, intelligent, irreverent, aesthetically sophisticated, sometimes Hitchcockianly grim, always philosophically powerful works of fiction. Each of these - with a paradoxical.

The Comforters was the debut novel of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie author Muriel Spark and while it's not a masterpiece, one can see why it was regarded as an impressive first book. The story revolves around a young woman named Caroline Rose, who begins hearing a voice, accompanied by a typewriter, narrating her life. The Comforters (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels) Spark, Muriel. Published by Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), ISBN ISBN Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom. Contact seller. The Comforters was the first of the 22 novels Muriel Spark would write over nearly 50 years, the first of what would become her recognisable but inimitable oeuvre of slim, intelligent, irreverent, aesthetically sophisticated, sometimes Hitchcockianly grim, always philosophically powerful works of fiction. Each of these – with a paradoxical lightness, and a sense of mixed resolution and unresolvedness that leaves its readers both satisfied and disturbed – would take to task its own.