Territorial Rights [Hardcover]

Muriel Spark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1979

Dust jacket notes: "Venice, with its fading palazzos, its promise of sexual intrigue, and its countless hiding places for secrets best kept hidden, is the setting for Muriel Spark's glittering new novel. Robert arrives off-season at the Pensione Sofia to escape a complicated affair and simplify his life. But in Venice nothing is what it seems - even the innocent pensione has a body buried in the garden - and Robert is soon ensnared in a plot as intricate and ingenious as any Muriel Spark has devised. Drawn together unexpectedly by blackmail and an almost forgotten crime, a glorious rogues' gallery of characters scurry to protect themselves. But who is safe away from home, without territorial rights? In the Venice of Muriel Spark, appearances are not only deciving, but as fragile as houses built on water...."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 1st edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0698109295
• ISBN-13: 978-0698109292
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,150,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Territorial Rights, May 7, 2011

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Linda Hepner (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Territorial Rights (Mass Market Paperback)

This novel by the brilliant stylist Muriel Spark made me laugh increasingly as I read. Deftly drawn characters, intrigue, comedic situations and delightful insights into Venice. While the wife sulks at home, her husband, son, best friend and a host of other linked personalities converge and interfere with the situation. A delightful, deceptively light touch that pleases like Mozart.

5.0 out of 5 stars Another page-turner from Spark, October 6, 2011

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Carla Sarett (Radnor, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Territorial Rights (Mass Market Paperback)

This particular novel by the amazing Muriel Spark is hard to find, but worth finding. It has her trademarks of twisted plotting and ever-deepening complications, along with her mordant wit. This one's especially modern in its concerns.