Back Results list  
 
Symposium
Jacket image for Symposium
View larger image
Author(s): Muriel Spark  
Contributor(s): Muriel Spark (author)  Ian Rankin (introduction)    
ISBN: 1844082474
ISBN-13: 9781844082476
Publication Date: 07 Sep 2006
Pages: 160 (198 x 126)
Format: Paperback
Published Price: £8.99


Add to basket »
Email a friend Email a friend
Print this page Print this Page
Read Extract
DESCRIPTION:
'This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many ...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 the subversiveness of thought more elegantly' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday

REVIEWS:
'This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many ... 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 the subversiveness of thought more elegantly' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday 'Stiletto-sharp fiction...as in the bitter confections of Ivy Compton-Burnett, it is the dialogue that propels this dangerous, devilish book' Alan Taylor, Scotland on Sunday 'Extremely clever and highly entertaining ... A young bride is seen to have been connected, apparently by chance, with a sequence of untimely deaths ... Symposium is put together like an intricate jigsaw puzzle' Penelope Lively 'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times ... She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme' Ian Rankin

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Edinburgh, Muriel Spark was internationally famous and received the Italia Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger and the Saltire Prize, among many others. She was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978 and to L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 1988. She died in April 2006.

EXTRACT:
Read Extract

Site by ehaus