A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (1990, Paperback, Reprint) 
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (1990, Paperback, Reprint)
Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: 1990-03-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0380707861
ISBN-13: 9780380707867
Product ID: EPID184624
Description: In Muriel Spark's memoir-like novel, Mrs. Hawkins, now living in Italy, looks back on her life in postwar London as an overweight young widow. By day, she works for a series of shady publishing firms; by night, she becomes involved with ...
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Synopsis
In Muriel Spark's memoir-like novel, Mrs. Hawkins, now living in Italy, looks back on her life in postwar London as an overweight young widow. By day, she works for a series of shady publishing firms; by night, she becomes involved with the inhabitants of her cheesy South Kensington boarding house. She also finds herself embroiled in a strange, existential mystery when anonymous letters begin arriving at her office. In an amusing aside, Mrs. Hawkins reveals her secrets for successful dieting, by means of which she went from fat in her London years to agreeably svelte in her Italian ones--years which in every way are, she tells us, "a far cry from Kensington."

Details
Publication Date:1990-03-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
In a post-war London boarding house, kindly Mrs. Hawkins, adept at handling other people's problems, finds herself a player in some very strange events.

Industry Reviews
"The plot that Mrs. Spark gradually unravels is intriguing enough in itself to hold a reader's interest, while the peripheral trimmings include splendid quick character sketches and a wicked send-up of eccentric publishers, arrogant authors, and crackpot literary parasites."
Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams (08/19/1988)

"[This book] reads like a mystery novel, albeit a somewhat metaphysical member of that species, with...Nancy Hawkins, an Anglo-Catholic of assurance and conviction, a polar force of moral energy....[T]his novel is animated, on occasion, by a palpable depth of feeling, something a number of critics have been unable to discern in Mrs. Spark's earlier novels."
Commonweal - Robert E. Hosmer (10/07/1988)

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