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082	0		_aFIC SPA
100	1		_aSpark, Muriel
245	1	4	_aThe Stories of Muriel Spark
260			_aNew York _b: E. P. Dutton & Company _c, c1985.
300			_a314 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aThis collection consists of the 21 stories published in Spark's Collected Stories: I (Knopf, 1968) plus six new ones. Several of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. The short story is a form well suited to Spark's gifts as a writer--a delicate touch, a quiet sense of irony, and a vision of existence as a conflict between the temporal and the timeless. Frequently, her characters are involved in slightly sinister experiences that have unnerving effects (``The Twins,''``The Executor,''``Another Pair of Hands''). The situtations range from the development of a shrewd marriage of convenience (``The Fathers' Daughters'') to the depiction of a baby's view of World War I (``The First Year of My Life''). Crafted with impressive skill, the stories reflect a keen perception of human weakness and the possibility of its redemption.
651			_aEngland _v--Fiction
655		7	_aShort stories
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