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Cloaked in sophistication, the well-bred guests at a London dinner party are seething with subtle violence while awaiting the arrival of a guest who is being murdered as they eat
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About the Author
Born in Scotland, Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, biographies, and twenty-one novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. A recipient of many awards and honors, she is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and, in France, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Muriel Spark was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She passed away in April 2006.
From Publishers Weekly
The peerless author of A Far Cry from Kensington brings to her latest work a comedian's split-second timing and a classical fascination with fatality. Ten stylish Londoners assemble for a dinner party: as Charterhouse, the all-too-well-named butler, offers each course, Spark serves up a mercilessly economical history of the two hosts, their various guests and the distinguished Hilda Damien, who is expected "to look in" after dinner. But early on Spark has privileged the reader with information that might be shocking were it not so shrewdly incorporated: "But Hilda Damien will not come in after dinner. She is dying, now, as they speak." Polished and witty, the narrative cuts from the banquet to episodes in the recent past that link Hilda's death to her associations with the other characters. Especially scrutinized is odd young Margaret, Hilda's new daughter-in-law, whose proximity to the victims of apparently unrelated and bizarre murders engenders the suspicions of even her fond father. Spark's exquisitely balanced tone proves that the richest comedy is that which explores the darkest themes.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0395511011
- ISBN 13 9780395511015
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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