Ballad of Peckham Rye

"A fresh comic style does not appear every day, and that is what Muriel Spark has developed in this expert fantasy....It rests firmly on gags and nothing more; but the gags have been concealed with ingenuity, the pace is swift, the characters...familiar enough. The wackiness is cumulative, the style dead-pan...and above all no overt attempt is ever made to get a laugh. As a result there are laughs--and genial popular entertainment of, imaginably, the Alec Guinness kind....One might try to read serious social satire into it, but such a heavy-handed attempt would merely miss the point of a rather giddy book that is quite content to amuse."Spark, Muriel is the author of 'Ballad of Peckham Rye' with ISBN 9780811214087 and ISBN 0811214087.