description: Muriel Spark’s seventeen novels have made her one of the most admired writers in the English-speaking world. But even before she began publishing her remarkable novels, she was already an acclaimed teller of stories, and she has continued to use the form throughout her distinguished career. The Stories of Muriel Spark brings together all those wonderful stories—from the early ones about Africa, written before her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957, to her most recent, “Another Pair of Hands” and “The Dragon,” both published this year in The New Yorker. It includes the stories of her previous collections—Voices at Play, The Go-Away Bird, and Bang-bang, You’re Dead—as well as a host of stories never before published in book form. From post-war Africa and London to contemporary Italy, the range of settings and characters displayed in this volume is astonishing, but perhaps even more so is the consistency of her prose—precise, witty, always alert to nuance and the moment that defines character. Superbly crafted and immensely entertaining, this is an incomparable collection from an incomparable writer.
language: English
title: The Stories of Muriel Spark
titlecomplete: The Stories of Muriel Spark
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 26
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish Book of the Year
publisher: Listening Library