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Muriel Spark. New Directions, Sep 17, 2000 - Fiction - 189 pages. 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 of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand, and leads us back to her ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
7 ago 2023 · Loitering with Intent focuses on the unpredictability of artistic existence in mid-century London. Spark writes of debt collection letters and the cold bedsit room rented out by a swinish landlord, but within the novel is the refrain, ‘how wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.’.
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