{"product_id":"9780811221597","title":"The Informed Air: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eTogether for the first time in one sparkling, delicious volume, here are the greatest essays of Muriel Spark\u003cbr\u003eA fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontës, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous “Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;” 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first New Year’s Eve, as a baby sipping her mother’s sherry: “I always loved a party”).Spark’s scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job’s sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell’s cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030562488560,"sku":"9780811221597","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811221597_p0.jpg?v=1763742638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811221597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}