The Informed Air
Essays
Seiten
2014
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2159-7 (ISBN)
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2159-7 (ISBN)
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Together for the first time in one sparkling, delicious volume, here are the greatest essays of Muriel Spark
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontës, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous “Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;” 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year’s Eve, as a baby sipping her mother’s sherry: “I always loved a party”).
Spark’s scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job’s sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell’s cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontës, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous “Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;” 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year’s Eve, as a baby sipping her mother’s sherry: “I always loved a party”).
Spark’s scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job’s sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell’s cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.6.2014 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 491 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8112-2159-8 / 0811221598 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8112-2159-7 / 9780811221597 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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