Muriel Spark

The Finishing School

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now available as a stunning Canon'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI SMITH

Produktdetails

• Canons
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main - Canons Edition
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 105g
• ISBN-13: 9781782117575
• ISBN-10: 1782117571
• Artikelnr.: 43906356

Autorenporträt

Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she is most well known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She also wrote children's books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.

Rezensionen

An eloquent, subtle, poetic exploration of what words are and what they do to us. Enchanting, devastating, genius Helen Dunmore The Times