Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark by Hosmer, E. New<-

Hidden PossibilitiesEssays in Honor of Muriel Spark\nAuthor(s): Robert E. Hosmer Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268030995, 978-0268030995\nSynopsis\nDescribed by David Lodge as \""the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation,\"" Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems, stories, plays, essays, and, most notably, novels. The extensive bibliography of her works included in this collection reveals the astonishing output of a powerful and sustained creative spirit. \n\n Hidden Possibilities gathers a distinguished group of writers from both sides of the Atlantic to offer an informed overview of Muriel Spark's life and work. Critics have often read Spark in a somewhat narrow contextas a Catholic, a woman, or a Scottish writer. The essays in this volume, while making connections between these contexts, cumul.