All the Stories of Muriel SparkNew Directions Publishing, 2001 - 398 páginas This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of her forty-one marvelous stories, catnip for all Spark fans. All the Stories of Muriel Spark spans Dame Muriel Spark's entire career to date and displays all her signature stealth, originality, beauty, elegance, wit, and shock value.No writer commands so exhilarating a style--playful and rigorous, cheerful and venomous, hilariously acute and coolly supernatural. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, imaginary chauffeurs, and persistent guests. Regarding one story ("The Portobello Road"), Stephen Schiff said in The New Yorker: "Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: 'He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.' It's a nasty piece of work, that sentence." |
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THE CURTAIN BLOWN BY THE BREEZE | 21 |
THE BLACK MADONNA | 34 |
BANGBANG YOURE DEAD | 52 |
THE SERAPH AND THE ZAMBESI | 77 |
THE TWINS | 85 |
THE PLAYHOUSE CALLED REMARKABLE | 94 |
THE PAWNBROKERS WIFE | 104 |
MISS PINKERTONS APOCALYPSE | 115 |
THE LEAFSWEEPER | 127 |
DAISY OVEREND | 133 |
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE MESS | 141 |
COME ALONG MARJORIE | 147 |
THE ORMOLU CLOCK | 158 |
THE DARK GLASSES | 167 |
A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY | 180 |
A SAD TALES BEST FOR WINTER | 121 |
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