- Fiction, Women, Murder, Travel
Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, adopts a girlier tone of voice, and heads to the airport to fly south. On the plane she takes a seat between two men. One is delighted with her company, the other is deeply perturbed. So begins an unnerving journey into the darker recesses of human nature.
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Intimate, spare, cool and grave.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 117
- Publisher
- New Directions Bibelot, Diogenes Verlag, Macmillan
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780811223010
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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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