In the Spirit of Spark: The Muriel Spark Society Lecture - Softcover

Ali Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846974666 ISBN 13: 9781846974663

Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), 2018

Synopsis

In November 2017 Ali Smith gave the annual Muriel Spark Lecture to kick off the Muriel Spark centenary celebrations. Those lucky enough to get tickets were treated to an invigorating, joyous call-and-response between two of our best writers, both supremely talented in the playful interrogation of truth, power, art and living. In Spark, Smith finds the most formidable inspiration. In Smith, Spark has a formidable champion, one who shows us how Spark's work resonates now more than ever. If you want to read a regenerative blast in praise of how and why fiction matters, start here, and, as Spark writes, `Hear me to the end.'

About this title

About the Author:

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She studied at the University of Aberdeen and Newham College, Cambridge. Her first book, Free Love and Other Stories (1995) won the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her novel Autumn was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker. She lives in Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1846974666
• ISBN 13: 9781846974663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64