Memento Mori
$24.41
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2010
Summary
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, “Remember you must die.” Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184408552X |
| Author: | Muriel Spark, A.L. Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 165g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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This funny and macabre book has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war
‘There is a Waugh-like brilliance to this novel, in the easy economical narrative, the continuous invention producing a series of surprises, the well-cut dialogue, the controlled tone. This last is the most remarkable of Miss Spark’s achievements. Nothing is forced, least of all the humour’ V. S. Naipaul, NEW STATESMAN
‘I am reading a trio of novels by Muriel Spark, a marvelously witty English writer, one of the few lady writers I like to read. Her best, I think, is Memento Mori, which is chillingly brilliant’ Tennessee Williams‘This funny and macabre book has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war’ Graham Greene‘A brilliant and singularly gruesome achchievement’ Evelyn Waugh‘Memento Mori is one of the great British novels of the last fifty years Julian BarnesAbout The Author
Muriel Spark
Born in Edinburgh, Muriel Spark was internationally famous and received the Italia Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger and the Saltire Prize, among many others. She was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978 and to L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 1988. She died in April 2006.
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