Muriel Spark

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SymposiumPaperback, 17 October 2006

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Part of Series
New Directions Classics
Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published
17 Oct 2006
ISBN-10
0811216594
ISBN-13
9780811216593

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One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is) and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment

Symposium was applauded by Time magazine for the sinister elegance of Muriel Spark's medium of light but lethal comedy. Mixed in are a Monet, a mad uncle, some unconventional nuns, and a burglary ring run by a rent-a-butler. Symposium stars a perfectly evil young woman (a classic sweet-faced hair-raising Sparkian horror) who has married rich Hilda's son by hook or by crook, hooking him at the fruit counter of Harrod's. There is also spiritual conversationand the Bordeaux is superb. The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath, by boiling emotions and ugly motives .No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and subversiveness of thought more elegantly. (The Independent on Sunday).

Product Details

Author:
Muriel Spark
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 October 2006
Dimensions:
19.81 x 14.63 x 1.3 cm
Genre:
British
ISBN-10:
0811216594
ISBN-13:
9780811216593
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
192
Weight:
204.12 gm

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