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18 apr 2024 · The Girls of Slender Means review – Muriel Spark’s postwar tale told with zingy wit. Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the...
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There are shades of both Patricia Highsmith and Muriel Spark...
- What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in ...
28 apr 2024 · Muriel Spark (1918-2006), best known as author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells us in the opening to her autobiography 'Curriculum Vitae’: "I was born in Edinburgh, at 160...
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24 apr 2024 · Londra 1949, zucchero, burro, benzina ancora razionati, giovani segretarie con il sogno di diventare scrittrici, oscuri baronetti con mire di plagio. Muriel Spark ci racconta di intrighi di famiglia, ma in realtà ci sta parlando del rapporto tra l'autore e la sua opera, di come nasce un'opera letteraria, del rapporto tra realtà e ...
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9 mag 2016 · Autore. Muriel Spark. Editore. Casa editrice. Adelphi. Una cerchia di anziani signori e signore londinesi, tutti agiati membri della migliore società, riceve successivamente una telefonata misteriosa con il seguente messaggio: «Ricorda che devi morire».
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15 apr 2024 · Muriel Spark is one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. However, critical (as opposed to religious) orthodoxy declares that she ‘is a Catholic writer’.2 For some this may appear an unprob-lematic formulation but much will depend here upon what is meant
28 apr 2024 · MURIEL Spark’s famous novel The Girls Of Slender Means commends itself to theatre writers in many ways. The book tells the story of a diverse group of young women, thrown together in a London hostel in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
