The Informed Air: Essays
Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker) A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontës, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley), love, 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”).No one was as fearless and original” (TLS) as Muriel Spark, who believed that art is an act of daring.” Here she glides from the mysteries of J…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2400-0
- EAN: 9780811224000
- Produktnummer: 34247686
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'057 KB
Über den Autor
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver's Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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