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The Informed Air: Essays

English

By (author): Muriel Spark

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 Years Eve, as a baby sipping her mothers 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 Jobs sufferings to Dame Edith Sitwells 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. 

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Product Details
  • Weight: 341g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811227674

About Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark (19182006) 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 Drivers Seat and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993. Penelope Jardine a painter and sculptor is the literary executor of Muriel Sparks estate and was her best friend for many decades.

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