| Muriel Spark (1918–2006)Beinhaltet die Namen: Muriel Spark, Murial Spark, Murial Spark, Muriel Spark, Muriels Spark, Murield Spark, by Muriel Spark, Мюриэл Спарк, Muriel; Muriel Spark Spark, Schriftstellerin Muriel Spark ... (ganze Liste ansehen), Illustrated by Beryl Cook Muriel Spark, Muriel Spark Illustrated by Beryl Cook, William (Introduction) Muriel ; Boyd Spark, Allan Massie (introduction) (author), Alan Taylor (series editor) Muriel Spark, Zoë Strachan (introduction) (author), Alan Taylor (series editor) Muriel Spark | 18,253 (21,491) | 674 | 1,034 |  (3.67) | 101 | 0 | Muriel Spark has been called "our most chillingly comic writer since Evelyn Waugh" by the London Spectator, and the New Yorker praised her novel Memento Mori ri (1959) as "flawless." Her fiction is marked by its remarkable diversity, wit, and craftsmanship. "She happens to be, by some rare concatenation of grace and talent, an artist, a serious---and most accomplished---writer, a moralist engaged with the human predicament, wildly entertaining, and a joy to read" (SRSR). She became widely known in the United States when the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). Set in Edinburgh in the 1930s, this is the story of a schoolteacher, her unorthodox approach to life, and its effect on her select group of adolescent girls. Though their idol turns out to have feet of clay, she leaves an indelible mark on their lives. The Girls of Slender Means (1963), also warmly praised, is a sardonic look at the vivacity of youth and the anxieties of young womanhood. Reviewing The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) for the New Republic, Honor Tracy wrote: "There is an abundance here of invention, humor, poetry, wit, perception, that all but takes the breath away. . . . The story, in fact, is pure adventure, with the suspense as artfully maintained as anywhere by Graham Greene, but this is only one ingredient. There are memorable descriptions of the Holy Land, fascinating insights into the jumble of intrigue and piety surrounding the Holy Places, and penetrating studies of Arabs. . . . In each of [Spark's] novels heretofore one of her qualities has tended to predominate over the others. Here for the first time they are all impressively marshaled side by side, resulting in her best work so far." The daughter of an Englishwoman and a Scottish-Jewish father, Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. After her marriage in 1938, she lived for some years in Central Africa, a period rarely reflected in her work. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. She has been a magazine editor and written poetry and literary criticism. Spark has lived in London's Camberwell section, the setting of The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), but now makes her home in New York. Her novels reflect her conversion to Roman Catholicism. (Bowker Author Biography) Writer Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918. In 1934-1935 she took a course in commercial correspondence and précis writing at Heriot-Watt College. After her marriage in 1937, she lived for some years in Central Africa. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. After the war, she began her literary career. She became General Secretary of the Poetry Society, worked as an editor and wrote studies of Mary Shelley, John Masefield and the Brontë sisters. Her first book of poetry, The Fanfarlo and Other Verse, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957. She wrote over twenty books including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School. She won numerous awards and honors including the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Mandelbaum Gate, the 1992 U. S. Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award, the 1997 David Cohen British Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and in 1993 she became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to literature. The Scottish Arts Council created the Muriel Spark International Fellowship in 2004. She died on April 13, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Die Blütezeit der Miss Jean Brodie … (mehr) |
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Muriel Spark hat 4 vergangene Veranstaltungen. (show)  Alan Taylor: A Friendship With Muriel Spark This year we celebrate the centenary of Scots literary icon Muriel Spark. Most famous for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel is the author of 22 widely acclaimed novels as well as countless short stories, journalism and letters. Journalist and writer Alan Taylor interviewed Muriel in 1990 and a friendship blossomed. He has documented her life and this relationship in new book Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark Alan will be in conversation at Falkirk Library on Monday March 26th at 7pm. You'll have the chance to purchase the book and have it signed.
Tickets for the this not-to-be-missed insight into Spark's life are free and available in person from Falkirk Library and Waterstones Falkirk and online at Eventbrite: bit.ly/spark100fk (OwenRochester)… (mehr)Presentació de: 'La plenitud de la senyoreta Brodie'  VB Reads...Motherhood by the Book Motherhood by the Book is led by Claire, VB staffer, mother of a toddler, and stepmother of an adolescent. The book group meets on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm on the mezzanine level, next to our poetry section and near the Book Fare Cafe, for an hour of spirited discussion of books that celebrate the trials, tribulations, and rewards of motherhood, and what it means to be a mother. This group is by no means exclusive to moms with kids still at home, but much of the selection may be geared toward issues that those moms face. We will read fiction, non-fiction, and parenting books.
Sun, Feb 9, 2pm
The girls of slender means by Muriel Spark
Like the May of Teck Club itself - "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit" - its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown.
Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (hinzugefügt von IndieBound)… (mehr)Cholla Book Club
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