Not to Disturb – A Novel: 1180 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Spark, Muriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218678 ISBN 13: 9780811218672

Publisher: New Directions, 2010

Synopsis

A winter's night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron's lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary's friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend's services are needed for an impromptu wedding--and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing records, preparing dinner, and documenting false testimonies while a twisted murder plot unfolds upstairs.

About this title

Product Description:

Not to Disturb Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb. Full description

Review:

Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her.--Stephen Schiff

Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions.--James Wood

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0811218678
• ISBN 13: 9780811218672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96