All the stories of Muriel Spark
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All the stories of Muriel Spark
（A New Directions paperbook, 933）
New Directions, 2001
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Short stories
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"This new paperback collection "combines 4 brand new stories to the 37 originally collected in the 1997 cloth ed. 'Open to The Public' story collection from New Directions ... This is the definitive Spark short fiction volume"--Publisher's info."--T.p. verso
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This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of her forty-one marvelous stories, catnip for all Spark fans. All the Stories of Muriel Spark spans Dame Muriel Spark's entire career to date and displays all her signature stealth, originality, beauty, elegance, wit, and shock value.No writer commands so exhilarating a style-playful and rigorous, cheerful and venomous, hilariously acute and coolly supernatural. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, imaginary chauffeurs, and persistent guests. Regarding one story ("The Portobello Road"), Stephen Schiff said in The New Yorker: "Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: 'He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.' It's a nasty piece of work, that sentence."
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