The Informed Air: Essays
Muriel Spark
(Author)
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Description
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontës, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year's Eve, as a baby sipping her mother's sherry: "I always loved a party").Spark's scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job's sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell's cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.
Product Details
Price
$24.95
$23.20
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 29, 2014
Pages
286
Dimensions
5.86 X 1.06 X 8.22 inches | 1.07 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811221597
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About the Author
Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was born and educated in Scotland. She worked for Britain's Foreign Office during WWII, served as general secretary of the Poetry Society and editor of The Poetry Review, and, before turning to fiction, published a series of critical biographies of literary figures. She wrote more than twenty books, including The Comforters, Memento Mori, The The Girls of Slender Means, and Symposium. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
Reviews
In this volume, which runs to just over 300 pages, is contained some of the sharpest literary thinking of the 20th century.--The Informed Air
Artist Penelope Jardine, Spark's longtime companion and literary executor, has collected 63 pieces of nonfiction, including book reviews, travel essays, literary reflections and memoirs, that together offer a prismatic portrait. Known for her sharp wit and sarcasm, Spark reveals a tender side in her reminiscences.--The Informed Air
Artist Penelope Jardine, Spark's longtime companion and literary executor, has collected 63 pieces of nonfiction, including book reviews, travel essays, literary reflections and memoirs, that together offer a prismatic portrait. Known for her sharp wit and sarcasm, Spark reveals a tender side in her reminiscences.--The Informed Air
