The Informed Air: Essays

by Muriel Spark

Book Overview

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Bront?s, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811227677
• ISBN13: 9780811227674
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"