Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark
A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron's lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary's friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend's services are needed for an impromptu wedding--and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing records, preparing dinner, and documenting false testimonies while a twisted murder plot unfolds upstairs.
Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her-- Stephen Schiff - The New Yorker
Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions. -- James Wood - The Guardian
A very rare bird...Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver's Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire. -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places
Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions. -- James Wood - The Guardian
A very rare bird...Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver's Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire. -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places
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 | 9780811218672 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811218678 |
| Title | Not to Disturb |
| Author | Muriel Spark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2010-06-10 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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