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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.
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.
20 feb 2018 · A Far Cry from Kensington is the Muriel Spark novel to fall in love with | Muriel Spark | The Guardian. ‘Books don’t wriggle, authors do’ … Muriel Spark in 2004. Photograph: Colin...
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 ...
11 set 2020 · A far cry from Kensington. by. Spark, Muriel, 1918-. Publication date. 1989. Topics. Fiction in English 1945- Texts. Publisher. Harmondsworth : Penguin.
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27 mag 2014 · A Far Cry from Kensington. Muriel Spark. New Directions Publishing, May 27, 2014 - Fiction - 192 pages. The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London. Rich and slim, the celebrated author...
