{"product_id":"the-girls-of-slender-means-muriel-spark-9780241963999","title":"The Girls Of Slender Means","description":"\u003cp\u003eA title written by the author of novels such as \"Memento Mori\" (1959), \"The Ballad of Peckham Rye\" (1960), \"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\" (1961), \"The Girls of Slender Means\" (1963), and \"Aiding and Abetting\" (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOmschrijving\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened. They practice elocution, and jostle one another over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. But behind the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations they hide some tragically painful secrets and wounds.\u003ci\u003e'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Reading the novel as a young woman was a random gift; rereading it today is to encounter the rarest of fiction and to appreciate the early and enduring genius of Muriel Spark' Carol Shields, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of Spark's most evocative novels' Anne Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include \u003ci\u003eMemento Mori\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Peckham Rye\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) and \u003ci\u003eAiding and Abetting\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePromotionele informatie\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProductspecificaties\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuteur:\u003c\/strong\u003e Muriel Spark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUitgever:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books Ltd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBindwijze:\u003c\/strong\u003e B-format paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVerschijningsdatum:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2013-06-06\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAantal pagina's:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780241963999\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThema:\u003c\/strong\u003e Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/strong\u003e FICTION \/ Literary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOver de auteur\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include \u003ci\u003eMemento Mori\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Peckham Rye\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) and \u003ci\u003eAiding and Abetting\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intertaal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56354483044692,"sku":"9780241963999","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/0538\/0692\/files\/9780241963999.jpg?v=1783583151","url":"https:\/\/intertaalid.nl\/fi\/products\/the-girls-of-slender-means-muriel-spark-9780241963999","provider":"Intertaal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}