Evening Fiction
Tuesday, November 14, 7:00 pm
Evening Fiction Book Group meets the 2th Tuesday each month at 7:00 p.m. The book group is led by Bennard Fajardo from Politics and Prose and meets online--for details please contact bookgroups@politics-prose.com
A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do “human research” into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder.
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.