| The Informed Air: Essays Contributor(s): Spark, Muriel (Author), Jardine, Penelope (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0811227677 ISBN-13: 9780811227674 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2018 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.9" W x 7.7" L (0.75 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontės, 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 Job's sufferings to Dame Edith Sitwell's cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher: "'My dear, ' she said, 'you must acquire a pair of lorgnettes, make an occasion to see that man again, focus the glasses on him and sit looking at him through them as if he was an insect. Just look and look.'" |
Contributor Bio(s): Spark, Muriel: - 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.Jardine, Penelope: - Penelope Jardine, a painter and sculptor, is the literary executor of Muriel Spark's estate and was her best friend for many decades. |
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