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Synopsis
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 Brontės, 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.
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About the Author
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.
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“It’s hilarious, wicked writing. There are lots of gems like that strewn carelessly about The Informed Air. It’s its own story about how a bright girl became an essential and pithy writer, and the chance to read Spark’s inimitable voice is a pleasure.”
- Flavorwire
“Artist Penelope Jardine, Spark’s longtime companion and literary executor, has collected 63 pieces of nonfiction, including book reviews, travel essays, literary reflections and memoirs, that together offer a prismatic portrait. Known for her sharp wit and sarcasm, Spark reveals a tender side in her reminiscences.”
- Kirkus
“In this volume, which runs to just over 300 pages, is contained some of the sharpest literary thinking of the 20th century.”
- Star Tribune
“Like Muriel Spark’s fiction, The Informed Air offers the reader considerable pleasure.”
- Washington Post
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0811221598
- ISBN 13 9780811221597
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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