A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontës, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley), love, 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").
No one was as "fearless and original" (TLS) as Muriel Spark, who believed that "art is an act of daring." Here she glides from the mysteries of Job's sufferings to Dame Edith Sitwell's cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher: "'My dear,' she said, 'you must acquire a pair of lorgnettes, make an occasion to see that man again, focus the glasses on him and sit looking at him through them as if he was an insect.
Just look and look.'".
| ISBN: | 9780811227674 |
| Publication date: | 26th January 2018 |
| Author: | Muriel Spark |
| Publisher: | New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Anthologies: general Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls |
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontës, T. S.
The Informed Air features in the following genres: Anthologies: general, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women and girls
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The Informed Air was written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions
The Informed Air has 304 pages