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Overview
The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London
Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. Everywhere Mrs. Hawkins finds evil: with aplomb, however, she confidently sets about putting things to order, to terrible effect.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780811223027 |
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Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication date: | 05/27/2014 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 176 |
Sales rank: | 557,023 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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