The Informed Air: Essays [Paperback]

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Bront?s, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley), love, Piero della Francesca, life in wartime London and in glamorous Hollywood-on-the-Tiber 1960s Rome, faith, and parties (on her first New Years Eve, as a baby sipping her mothers sherry: I always loved a party).Witty, exacting, and wholly original. Muriel Sparks writing is sui generis, herinfluence unquantifiable. These essays reveal in diamond-cut fragments thethings that most amused and most touched her, each facet reflecting somenew, surprising aspect of the deep inner workings of her mind.Muriels sparky prose is the best way to start your day. Reading a blast of herprose every morning is a far more restorative way to start a day than a shot ofespresso.Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of the best sentences in English (