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The Only Problem

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Only Problem
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Muriel Spark
Introduction by Richard Holloway
Series edited by Alan Taylor
SeriesThe Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 205,Width 140
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Crime and mystery
Espionage and spy thriller
ISBN/Barcode 9781846974410
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Edition Centenary Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Birlinn General
Imprint Birlinn Ltd
Publication Date 2 August 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Wealthy Canadian scholar Harvey Gotham lives in splendid isolation in France and is working on a book about Job. He loves his wife, Effie, dearly but she has taken to planting bombs in supermarkets and has joined an anarchist group. Here, Spark returns to the Book of Job, which had always fascinated her, and 'the only problem' - the problem of suffering. Why does God allow it? A despairing and exhilarating read, The Only Problem is a masterwork.

Author Biography

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006. Richard Holloway is a writer and broadcaster who was Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000. He has written extensively on complex ethical issues such as sexuality, drugs and bioethics and is the author of more than twenty books, including his critically acclaimed memoir Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt.

Reviews

'As I entered my teens, I developed a taste for more arch, snappy writing and discovered the joys of Muriel Spark. Wisdom and wit - ideal for an impressionable youth finding his way in the world' -- Julian Clary * Daily Mail *