'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times.'Ian RankinIn this first novel by Muriel Spark - author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the only things that aren't ambiguous are Spark's matchless originality and glittering wit.With an introduction by Ali Smith.Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange,detached narration of her every thought and action. She has an unusual problem - she realises she is in a novel. Her fellow characters are also possibly deluded: Laurence,her former lover,finds diamonds in a loaf of bread - could his elderly grandmother really be a smuggler And Baron Stock,her bookseller friend,believes he is on the trail of England's leading Satanist.'A master of malice and mayhem.'Michiko Kakutani,New York Times'Brilliantly original and fascinating.'Evelyn Waugh'A light,clever,mirthful tour de force...It disrupts and charms its readers with its combination of wit,precision,intelligence and hilarity. As vibrant as ever,more than fifty years after its first appearance.'Ali Smith
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781844085538Number of pages: 208Weight: 170 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 18 mm
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That this light,clever,mirthful tour de force was a first novel is astounding. It ends with its own genesis,neatly,like a good joke. As vibrant as ever,more than 50 years after its first appearance,it still knocks the stuffing out of the realist tradition,and probably always willBrilliantly original and fascinatingA master of malice and mayhem
Muriel Spark
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Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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