The Comforters
Prigee, 1984. Trade Paperback. With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil. More
Prigee, 1984. Trade Paperback. With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil. More
Houghton Mifflin, May 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. A vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Spark's work--Edinburgh of the 1920s; her Jewish father; her Presbyterian, English mother; and of course the original Miss Jean Brodie. A short cracker of a book, full of love and..... More
Doubleday, September 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. The lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel by one of the world's most admired writers College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to..... More
Viking, April 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition in dustjacket. Dark burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Plum paper covered boards. Orchid colored end pages. [146 pages]. More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 2001. Trade Paperback. "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world,"..... More
The Viking Press, March 1972. Hardcover. {5 & 1/4' x 8 & 1/2'} In birght, clean dustjacket. Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Black on red patterned paper covered boards. Bright red end papers. [121 pages]. More
Macmillan, February 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition in dustjacket with closed tear creeping from bottom of front panel at base of spine upwards next to the spine. Edgewear top & bottom of spine and another closed tear about one & 1/2-inches at front fold bottom edge. Not price..... More