- Fiction, Dinners and dining, Upper class, Great britain, fiction
"One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying "the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)" and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, who has been unavoidably detained due to the fact that she is being murdered at this very moment ...
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Intimate, cool, meticulous and contemporary.
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- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Muriel Spark
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Clio, Houghton Mifflin Co., Penguin Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781560541646
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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
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