Not to Disturb
Muriel Spark
(Author)
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Description
A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron's lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary's friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend's services are needed for an impromptu wedding--and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing records, preparing dinner, and documenting false testimonies while a twisted murder plot unfolds upstairs.
Product Details
Price
$12.95
$12.04
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
June 29, 2010
Pages
91
Dimensions
6.18 X 0.28 X 8.0 inches | 0.23 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811218672
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Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the author of over twenty novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as well as critical biographies, radio plays, children's books, poetry, and short-story collections. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993 and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1996.
Reviews
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: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her.--Stephen Schiff
Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions.--James Wood
Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions.--James Wood