Memento Mori

Muriel Spark

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A brilliant and singularly gruesome achievement.

— Evelyn Waugh

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

Memento Mori

Fictionby 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 US
15.95
Price CN
17
Page Count
224

Ebook(published May 27, 2014)

ISBN
9780811219372
Price US
15.95

Paperback(published June 1, 2000)

ISBN
9780811214384
Price US
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