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Spark's Satire
Muriel Spark
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Description for Spark's Satire
Paperback. Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit Series: Canons. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 310.
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of human fallibility with formidable precision. Spanning five decades, the glittering, sharp and sinister works of Spark's Satire confirm their author as one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists.
From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash survivors of Robinson eking out an existence on an Atlantic island after its resident mystic disappears, these three satires probe the recesses of human fallibility with formidable precision. Spanning five decades, the glittering, sharp and sinister works of Spark's Satire confirm their author as one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Series
Canons
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117674
SKU
9781782117674
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Ref
99-2
About Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.
Reviews for Spark's Satire
Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as smashed glass
JOHN UPDIKE
New Yorker
Enchanting, devastating, genius
HELEN DUNMORE Peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme
IAN RANKIN A receptive and wholly distinctive genius
Spectator
A wholly original presence in modern literature
ANDREW MOTION The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso
Daily Telegraph
A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas
New York Times Book Review
She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius
A N WILSON
Spectator
Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit
New Yorker
There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique
Financial Times
Brilliant, Sparkian ice
ALI SMITH
JOHN UPDIKE
New Yorker
Enchanting, devastating, genius
HELEN DUNMORE Peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme
IAN RANKIN A receptive and wholly distinctive genius
Spectator
A wholly original presence in modern literature
ANDREW MOTION The care with which she uses words is matched by a gloriously carefree attitude. It's all part of her sanity, her breezy authorial self-confidence; and because of this I think that reading a blast of her prose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot of espresso
Daily Telegraph
A profoundly serious comic writer whose wit advances, never undermines or diminishes, her ideas
New York Times Book Review
She has a receptive and wholly distinctive genius
A N WILSON
Spectator
Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit
New Yorker
There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique
Financial Times
Brilliant, Sparkian ice
ALI SMITH