The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Author: Muriel Spark

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2009

Category: Fiction


Synopsis

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. In fact, this "Music Man" of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V. R. Druce, unsuspecting managing director. This is Dame Muriel Spark at her most devilishly piquant.

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