Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories

By Muriel Spark

Book Overview

A new collection by the master story-teller. These stories are eerie and sometimes a little perverse, always delightful, and as rich as her acclaimed novels. Open to the Public contains thirty-seven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811213676
• ISBN13: 9780811213677
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: New Directions
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

One Funny Dame

Of the best novelists now working none is funnier or, in her whimsical, deadly way, more profound than Dame Muriel Spark, and this updated collection of her short stories is a delight from cover to cover. Readers of her many novels will already know what an elegant stylist Dame Muriel is. The short stories--especially 'The Portobello Road', 'The Go-Away Bird' and 'The First Year of My Life'--show to even better advantage the economy and precision that characterize the novels. Good English may be absent from the works of all but the very best contemporary novelists; it is present and very much accounted for in these brilliant, perceptive, funny stories. Five cheers for Dame Muriel!