New Directions Classics: Memento Mori (Series #0) (Paperback)

from Chatterbox

This is a fascinating novel that deals with death -- the awareness of death and age, and how secrets seem to become less significant with time. In it, a cluster of related septugenarians and octoge...

from lkernagh

As the Latin title states, this book is about remembering your mortality, conveyed in a form and manner that only Spark can pull off with such witticism and comedy. Set in the time period for when ...

from GingerbreadMan

I adore Muriel Spark. I love her understated, slightly detached language. I love her intricate plots. I love her pitch-perfect balance between wit and unpleasantness. I know no other writer who qui...

from proustitute

A group of septuagenarians in late-1950s Britain are receiving upsetting phone calls: a man keeps harassing them, simply stating, "Remember, you must die." In Spark's hands, what would be a vehicle...

from DieFledermaus

Dame Lettie Colston has been receiving mysterious phone calls from a man who only says "Remember you must die." Pretty soon others in her family and social circle begin to be called upon also and s...