The Girls of Slender Means
- Paperback
140 pages
- Release Date
17 March 1998
Summary
Like the May of Teck Club itself—”three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit”—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel’s harrowing ending reveals that the girls’ giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811213790 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 081121379X |
| Author: | Muriel Spark |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 140 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 10mm |
| Series: | New Directions Classic |
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“Spark writes with a light comic touch, but there’s an undertone of a kind of existential desperation.” – Patrick T. Reardon (Chicago Tribune)
“Spark writes with a light comic touch, but there’s an undertone of a kind of existential desperation.” – Patrick T. Reardon - Chicago Tribune
About The Author
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Driver’s Seat. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993. She was called the writer of “some of the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker).
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