The stories of Muriel Spark
Spark, Muriel, 1918-20061987
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This collection consists of the 21 stories published in Spark's Collected Stories: I (Knopf, 1968) plus six new ones. Several of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. The short story is a form well suited to Spark's gifts as a writera delicate touch, a quiet sense of irony, and a vision of existence as a conflict between the temporal and the timeless. Frequently, her characters are involved in slightly sinister experiences that have unnerving effects (``The Twins,''``The Executor,''``Another Pair of Hands''). The situtations range from the development of a shrewd marriage of convenience (``The Fathers' Daughters'') to the depiction of a baby's view of World War I (``The First Year of My Life'').
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Author:
Spark, Muriel, 1918-2006, author
Imprint:
London : Bodley Head, 1987, c1985.
Collation:
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published, New York , Dutton, c1985.
ISBN:
03703102099780370310206
Dewey class:
823.914
LC class:
PR6037.P29
Local class:
FICFTF
Language:
English
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Index terms:
Short stories in English1945-Texts
BRN:
292722