The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark
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The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
I aim to startle as well as please, Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at all. One in fact is the ghost of a man who isn't even dead yet. Another takes the bus home from work, believing she is still alive, though she is haunted by an odious tune stuck in her head (which her murderer had been relentlessly humming), and distressed by a feeling of incompletion. And a reflective ghost recalls her mortal days of enjoying the glory of the world, as if it would never pass. Spark has a flair for confiding ghosts: I must explain that I departed this life nearly five years ago. But I did not altogether depart this world. There were those odd things still to be done which one's executors can never do properly. In her case the odd things include cheerily hailing her murderer, Hallo George and driving him mad. The remarkably nonchalant stories here include some of her most wicked and famousThe Seraph and the Zambesi, The Hanging Judge, and The Portobello Roadand they all gleam with that special Spark sheen, the quality The Times Literary Supplement has hailed as gloriously witty and polished.
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811215497 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811215490 |
| Title | The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark |
| Author | Muriel Spark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2004-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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