The Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark
(Author)
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Description
Like the May of Teck Club itself--"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"--its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 17, 1998
Pages
140
Dimensions
5.25 X 7.99 X 0.44 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811213790
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About the Author
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 writes with a light comic touch, but there's an undertone of a kind of existential desperation.--Patrick T. Reardon "Chicago Tribune"
