The Informed Air: Essays

By Muriel Spark

Book Overview

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Bront?s, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year's Eve, as a baby sipping her mother's sherry: "I always loved a party").

Spark's scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job's sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell's cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811221598
• ISBN13: 9780811221597
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.2"