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A Far Cry from Kensington is a novel ( roman à clef) by British author Muriel Spark, published in 1988. Plot introduction. Set in 1954, it is narrated by Agnes (known as Nancy) Hawkins; a young war widow lodging in a rooming house in South Kensington and working as an editor at a struggling publishing house.
- Muriel Spark
- 1988
1 gen 2001 · Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London.
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Muriel Spark. In A Far Cry from Kensington envy and paranoia pervade the world created by Muriel Spark, where down-at-heel lodgers, failing publishers and unpublishable writers make their way through life in London nine years after the second world war. The entire city remains scarred by bomb damage, with its inhabitants trapped in a state of ...
1 set 2000 · Paperback – September 1, 2000. by Muriel Spark (Author) 4.1 1,775 ratings. Part of: New Directions Classic (14 books) See all formats and editions. Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.
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- Muriel Spark
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Books. A Far Cry from Kensington. Muriel Spark. New Directions, Sep 17, 2000 - Fiction - 189 pages. Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from...
Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry From Kensington, takes us by the hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington boarding house.
