{"product_id":"9780811224376","title":"All the Stories of Muriel Spark","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour brand new tales are now added to New Directions' original 1997 cloth edition of \u003cem\u003eOpen to the Public\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of her forty-one marvelous stories, catnip for all Spark fans. \u003cem\u003eAll the Stories of Muriel Spark\u003c\/em\u003e spans Dame Muriel Spark's entire career to date and displays all her signature stealth, originality, beauty, elegance, wit, and shock value.No writer commands so exhilarating a style—playful and rigorous, cheerful and venomous, hilariously acute and coolly supernatural. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, imaginary chauffeurs, and persistent guests. Regarding one story (\"The Portobello Road\"), Stephen Schiff said in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e: \"Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: 'He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.' It's a nasty piece of work, that sentence.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129185059056,"sku":"9780811224376","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224376_p0.jpg?v=1769908117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224376","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}