- This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligible products include select Books, Single Copy Magazines, and Home & Garden items. Buy any 4 eligible items and get the lowest-priced item free. Here's how (restrictions apply)
- Save $10 when you spend $50 and pay with Bill Me Later. The fast and convenient way to buy without using your credit card. Offer limited to items purchased from Amazon.com between July 14, 2008 and July 21, 2008. One per customer account. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Over a hundred thousand books are eligible for our 4-for-3 Books and DVD promotion. How do I find more eligible items?
Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||||||
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Better Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (New Directions Classics.) by Muriel Spark  (5)
$11.95
|
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (7)
$11.16
|
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark  (13)
$11.16
|
The Bachelors (New Directions Classics,) by Muriel Spark (4)
$11.01
|
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark  (17)
|
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Published in 1974 and inspired by Watergate, Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe is much more amusing and infinitely drier. It transpires that Alexandra, the title character, has bugged and videotaped the Abbey--except for the confessionals and chapel--with electronic "devices fearfully and wonderfully beyond the reach of a humane vocabulary." After her only rival decamps for London and the arms of a Jesuit, police and newspapers swoop in. All the while, the Abbess (an adherent of Machiavelli, The Art of War, and the Modernist poets) keeps her cool, sacrificing her confederates as necessary and trying to assure herself of helicopter-hopping Gertrude's loyalty. (Gertrude is off curing cannibals of their customs and calls in occasionally from places whose unpronounceable names will soon be replaced by other equally unpronounceable names.) Spark's nuns on the run are more than stand-ins for the sweaty American President and his operatives; the satire extends to Anglo-snobbism and -Catholicism. The Abbess explains to the Pope that "electronic surveillance (even if a convent were one day to practise it) does not differ from any other type of watchfulness, the which is a necessity of a Religious Community; we are told in the Scriptures 'to watch and to pray,' which is itself a paradox."
From Library Journal
"An odd book, not at all what it seems at first near certainly to be?and a wickedly stimulating one," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 11/1/74) of what many believed to be a parody of the Watergate scandal, with the White House replaced by an abbey and Nixon by the title character.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
Published in 1974 and inspired by Watergate, Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe is much more amusing and infinitely drier. It transpires that Alexandra, the title character, has bugged and videotaped the Abbey--except for the confessionals and chapel--with electronic "devices fearfully and wonderfully beyond the reach of a humane vocabulary." After her only rival decamps for London and the arms of a Jesuit, police and newspapers swoop in. All the while, the Abbess (an adherent of Machiavelli, The Art of War, and the Modernist poets) keeps her cool, sacrificing her confederates as necessary and trying to assure herself of helicopter-hopping Gertrude's loyalty. (Gertrude is off curing cannibals of their customs and calls in occasionally from places whose unpronounceable names will soon be replaced by other equally unpronounceable names.) Spark's nuns on the run are more than stand-ins for the sweaty American President and his operatives; the satire extends to Anglo-snobbism and -Catholicism. The Abbess explains to the Pope that "electronic surveillance (even if a convent were one day to practise it) does not differ from any other type of watchfulness, the which is a necessity of a Religious Community; we are told in the Scriptures 'to watch and to pray,' which is itself a paradox."
From Library Journal
"An odd book, not at all what it seems at first near certainly to be?and a wickedly stimulating one," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 11/1/74) of what many believed to be a parody of the Watergate scandal, with the White House replaced by an abbey and Nixon by the title character.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
|