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27 mag 2014 · 作者简介 · · · · · ·. Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
1 mag 2008 · Now, years older, successful, and happily a far cry from Kensington, she looks back over the dark days that followed, in which she was embroiled in a mystery involving anonymous letters, quack remedies, blackmail and suicide.
21 apr 2007 · Like A Far Cry from Kensington (1988), its story draws heavily on the author's experiences as a young woman in postwar London, alone and financially struggling, but serene in her possession of "a ...
1 mag 2008 · A Far Cry From Kensington. Author. Muriel Spark. Hardback Paperback. £14.99. Quantity. Add to cart. With a cover design by Lucienne Day. When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions.
A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON has an effortless, translucent grasp of the spirit of the period ― OBSERVER 'Wonderfully entertaining - full of absurd, comical, engaging characters and written with typical wit, elegance and aplomb ― SUNDAY TELEGRAPH One of Muriel Spark's most liberating, liberated and meditative novels.
- Muriel Spark
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19 apr 2021 · A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark. Muriel Spark's playful and searching novel set amid London's postwar publishing scene. Abridged by Rosemary Goring. Read by Maggie Service. There are no ...
