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Memento Mori
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Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.Download the free Fable app
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“This book - think Evelyn Waugh, but sleeker and more brutal.
Seventy-nine-year-old Dame Lettie is unsettled when she answers a phone call, and a voice says, "Remember, you will die." When the calls continue, paranoia takes over and she begins to suspect family and friends who think perhaps senility have gotten the better of her. Then, others in her circle of geriatric "friends" begin receiving their own phone reminders.
This sounds like the opening of a horror novel or mystery.. it's neither. It's a sharp dark comedy about mortality, morality, and class. The phone calls are background to the petty behaviors of the large ensemble of self-absorbed characters in this book, most of whom are in their 70s+. I don't think there was a single likable character in this book, but Muriel Spark kept them ridiculously and horribly entertaining by pitting them all against each other.”
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“a sharp, witty, and morbid narrative that transforms the inevitability of meeting one's end into a comedy that is polite on the surface but laced with punchlines and poisonous gentleness. you're served Death like it's a tea party, with a smile and a reminder that the end is always calling... this time, quite literally. let me raise a glass for making mortality feel like a high satire.
truly one of the best pieces of literature the uni introduced me to.”
About Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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