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The Hothouse by the East River is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1973. The main two settings of the novel both reflect the author's life where she lived in Manhattan and where she worked in a POW camp in Britain in World War II.
- United States
- Muriel Spark
- English
1 gen 2001 · Paul and Elsa are married and living in a New York apartment facing the East River; it is the early 1970s. Elsa has some form of mental illness and spends much of her time looking out of the window at the river. Her shadow falls the opposite way to everyone else's.
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- Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark: The Hothouse by the East River. Another fun novel from Spark about the decline of Western civilisation and things not being what they seem to be. This one has bemused some readers, perhaps because they read it as a realist novel, which it clearly is not.
8 feb 2021 · The hothouse by the East River by Spark, Muriel. Publication date 1982 Topics Fiction in English 1945- Texts Publisher London : Granada Collection
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20 mar 2012 · The Hothouse by the East River is a delirious satire of superficial urban life in the shadow of one of modern history’s great horrors. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.
- Muriel Spark
It is now 1973 and they are living in New York. Elsa is convinced that a German ex-POW - and former lover - who has appeared in New York, may be planning to kill them. And what's more, her shadow...
