A Good Comb

The Sayings of Muriel Spark

23 February 2018

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

Muriel Spark (Author)

Description

Celebrate the immortal Muriel Spark’s hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit 

A Good Comb, a small gift edition of Muriel Spark’s brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms, is a book for sheer enjoyment. No writer offers such lively, pointed, puckish insights: "Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people’s mentalities." "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles." "The sacrifice of pleasure is of course itself a pleasure." "It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist." "She wasn’t a person to whom things happen." "You look for one thing and you find another." "It calms you down, a good comb."

Her scope is great and her striking insights are precise and unforgettable. This book will entertain you? It will even help you live your life. Drink in the pleasures of this little volume along with the benefits of taking up such advice as "Never make excuses but if you must, never make more than one? It gives the appearance of insincerity." And "Beware of men bearing flowers."

Reviews

"A wonderful writer." — James Wood

"The most original and innovative British novelist." — The New York Review of Books

"Spark is an enduring literary influence." — Vogue

"Surely the most engaging, tantalizing writer we have." — Frank Kermode, The London Review of Books

"A major twentieth-century writer and an extraordinary and unique talent: her gifts were unusual—a piercing eye; an acute ear; an incisive, often caustic wit." — The Chicago Tribune

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