The Only Problem
by Spark, Muriel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1984. First edition. Hardcover, 188 pp. Brown cloth binding and dust jacket in near fine condition. In The Only Problem, Spark assigns her main character, Harvey, the task of wrestling with the big questions of life and philosophy of religion, as he tries to bang out his monograph about Job - the problem at hand being how can an omnipotent creator permit suffering in the world? Spark casts the rest of her characters to compare the conventional and the unconventional. There's cheating, partner swapping, the police, and some seclusion in France. So, it's not too holy, because it's Spark.
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- Bookseller
- The Second Shelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7437
- Title
- The Only Problem
- Author
- Spark, Muriel
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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