Symposium
$23.89
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2006
Summary
This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many. The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists’ world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives.
‘No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and the subversiveness of thought more elegantly.’ - Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082476 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844082474 |
| Author: | Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many … The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonist s’ world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives … No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and the subversiveness of thought more elegantly - Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday
Stiletto-sharp fiction…as in the bitter confections of Ivy Compton-Burnett, it is the dialogue that propels this dangerous, devilish book - Alan Taylor, Scotland on SundayExtremely clever and highly entertaining … A young bride is seen to have been connected, apparently by chance, with a sequence of untimely deaths … Symposium is put together like an intricate jigsaw puzzle - Penelope LivelyThe greatest Scottish novelist of modern times … She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the cr?me de la cr?me - Ian RankinThis is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many … The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonist s’ world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives … No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and the subversiveness of thought more elegantly - Candia McWilliam, Independent on SundayStiletto-sharp fiction…as in the bitter confections of Ivy Compton-Burnett, it is the dialogue that propels this dangerous, devilish book - Alan Taylor, Scotland on SundayExtremely clever and highly entertaining … A young bride is seen to have been connected, apparently by chance, with a sequence of untimely deaths … Symposium is put together like an intricate jigsaw puzzle - Penelope LivelyThe greatest Scottish novelist of modern times … She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the cr?me de la cr?me - Ian RankinAbout 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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