Synopses & Reviews
Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of youth; unmarked graves -- claims much ground and Muriel Spark enjoys a wicked dance on it.
Synopsis
Wheels spin within wheels in Spark's comedy of betrayals and terrorism, set in her beloved Venice
About the Author
The writer of "some of the best sentences in English" (The New Yorker), Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Driver's Seat. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.