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  Memento Mori (Virago modern classics) (Paperback) By (author) Muriel Spark, Introduction by A. L. Kennedy

  

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  Short Description for Memento MoriA brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times)
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  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
  • Published: 04 February 2010
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781844085521 ISBN 10: 184408552X
  • Sales rank: 67,871

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• Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.