- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (26 Jan 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014001912X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140019124
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 927,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The stories in this book are "The Black Madonna", "The Pawnbroker's Wife", "The Twins", "Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse", "A Sad Tale's Best For Winter", "The Go-away Bird", "Daisy Overend", "You Should Have Seen The Mess", "Come Along, Marjorie", "The Seraph and the Zambesi", "The Portobello Road".
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Reality is wilder than fiction
1 Mar 2010
Muriel Spark has much better-known stories than The Go-Away Bird and this collection. I would not venture to compare. But I wonder if these stories are her hidden gems. Whether set in London or in Africa, more mundane or more extreme, each one has a twist which brings out the wildest from reality. Where else could you get jealous murders, flying saucers, real angels, and disturbed twins described with deadpan understatement? This is Poe or Hitchcock without being told. Or a Scottish Gabriel García Márquez, in short-story form. Fiction is about reality, and according to Spark, believably, reality is pretty wild.
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