9780811221597

The Informed Air

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780811221597

Hardcover|9780811221597


Overview

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontës, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year's Eve, as a baby sipping her mother's sherry: "I always loved a party").

Spark's scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job's sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell's cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.


ISBN-13

9780811221597

ISBN-10

0811221598

Weight

1.07 Pounds

Dimensions

5.80 x 1.20 x 8.30 In

List Price

$24.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

352 pages

Publisher

New Directions

Published On

2014-04-29



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