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Set in 1954, this is a tale narrated by one Mrs Agnes Hawkins, a plump, forthright and no-nonsense young war widow. Nancy (as she is called) is the calm at the center of the perennial storm in the offices of a struggling London publishing house in the difficult years after WWII.
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Cool, classical in form, comic and ironic.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Muriel Spark
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 190
- Publisher
- Penguin, Editorial Presença, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- und, Portuguese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780745171876
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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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