Memento mori

A brilliant and singularly gruesome achchievement Informationen zum Autor Muriel Spark, D.B.E, C. Litt, was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, a comedy, 'Doctors of Philosophy', first performed in London in 1962, and biographies. She is best known for her stories and many successful novels, including Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering With Intent, The Comforters, A Far Cry from Kensington and The Public Image. For her long career of literary achievement, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. Muriel Spark was given an honorary doctorate of Letters from a number of universities, London, Edinburgh and Oxford among these. She died in 2006. Klappentext A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times) Zusammenfassung A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)

Product details

• Authors: Muriel Spark
• Assisted by: A. L. Kennedy (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9781844085521
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-552-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary