![]() ![]() Willis at Drover Willis, say they want him to bridge the gap between art and industry in his new position as assistant personnel manager. Druce at Meadows, Meade & Grindley, and Mr. The hero, Dougal Douglas, a Scottish trickster, moves to Peckham and, without a twinge of conscience, accepts two jobs from rival textile companies. Spark’s spare, humorous, upside-down Ballad, published in 1960, makes you wonder who exactly the angels and the devils are in Spark’s fictional world. Although Spark’s comedies take a dark turn, she, too, has a penchant for labyrinthine plots and silly names. I happened to pick up her very funny early novel, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, the story of a wily bachelor who is the antithesis of Bertie Wooster. After a Wodehouse Bertie-Wooster-and-Jeeves binge, I turned to Spark’s satires. Muriel Spark’s mordant comedies are the flip side of P. ![]()
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