Memento Mori

Muriel Spark

A brilliant and singularly gruesome achievement.

Evelyn Waugh

Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age

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Memento Mori

Fiction by Muriel Spark

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.

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Paperback

published: May, 27 2014

ISBN:
9780811223041
Price U.S.:
15.95
Price CN:
17
Page Count:
224

Ebook

published: May, 27 2014

ISBN:
9780811219372
Price U.S.:
15.95

Paperback

published: Jun, 01 2000

ISBN:
9780811214384
Price U.S.:
13.95
Trim Size:
5x8
Page Count:
228
Portrait of Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

20th century Scottish novelist, poet and essayist

A brilliant and singularly gruesome achievement.

Evelyn Waugh

This funny and macabre book has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war.

Graham Greene

Acidly funny: a marvelously crafted, tautly written novel.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Her best, I think, is Memento Mori, which is chillingly brilliant.

Tennessee Williams

Spark’s greatest achievement.

Harper’s

A jewel of a book.

Newsday

There is a Waugh-like brilliance to Memento Mori, in the easy economical narrative, the continuous invention producing a series of surprises, the well-cut dialogue, the controlled tone. This last is the most remarkable of Miss Spark’s achievements. Nothing is forced, least of all the humor.

V.S. Naipaul

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