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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more