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Spark's Europe
Muriel Spark
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Description for Spark's Europe
Paperback. Travel the continent with this new collection of Muriel Spark's European novels as your guide - an often surprising, occasionally moving, and always unfailingly funny trip Series: Canons. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 370.
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of the odder specimens of human nature abounding there. By turns savage, witty and profound, Spark's Europe reaffirms Muriel Spark as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century.
From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some of the odder specimens of human nature abounding there. By turns savage, witty and profound, Spark's Europe reaffirms Muriel Spark as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117650
SKU
V9781782117650
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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 Europe
Glittering, Sparkian ice
ALI SMITH A wholly original presence in modern literature
ANDREW MOTION Enchanting, devastating, genius
HELEN DUNMORE There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique
Financial Times
She shares with Barbara Pym and Iris Murdoch the magical ability to write about people from whom in life we would run a mile, but who are made fascinating by their author's perceptions
Spectator
Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive
JOHN UPDIKE
New Yorker
My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme
IAN RANKIN 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
ALI SMITH A wholly original presence in modern literature
ANDREW MOTION Enchanting, devastating, genius
HELEN DUNMORE There can be few novelists who command such a formidable technique
Financial Times
She shares with Barbara Pym and Iris Murdoch the magical ability to write about people from whom in life we would run a mile, but who are made fascinating by their author's perceptions
Spectator
Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive
JOHN UPDIKE
New Yorker
My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme
IAN RANKIN 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