- Fiction, Older people, Death, Older people -- Fiction
Dame Lettie Colston, seventy-nine, O.B.E. and pioneer penal reformer, has much in common with the elderly residents of the Maud Long Medical Ward. All are united by scorn, resentment, boredom--and the maudlin humour that masks the awareness of impending death.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Cool, comic, prestige and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- First published
- October 1998
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), New Directions Publishing Corporation, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9780745119335
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 7 have read it and 86 want to.
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation TS Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993, in recognition of her services to literature. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature". Spark received eight honorary doctorates in her lifetime. These included a Doctor of the University degree from her
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Breakfast of Champions 197380% alikeBoth comic.
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater 196578% alikeBoth comic.
Symposium 199076% alikeBoth cool.
Hollywood 198975% alikeBoth cool.
A Relíquia 188773% alikeBoth cool, comic, prestige.
After Many a Summer 193973% alikeClose across the board.
Henderson, the rain king 195872% alikeBoth prestige.
The Liar's Dictionary 202072% alikeClose across the board.
M*A*S*H 197076% alikeFilm · Both comic.
Man on the Moon 199972% alikeFilm · Close across the board.