Memento Mori

by Muriel Spark Narrated by Nadia May

Overview

Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.

In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call from an insinuating voice reminding her that she must die. Soon, ten of Lettie's friends also receive the call. In the flurry that results from these seemingly supernatural messages, a bizarre investigation is launched that reveals a network of deception binding the group, including such dark secrets as blackmail and adultery.

As spooky as it is witty, poignant, and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Schaffer

[A]cidly funny tale of aging and death...a marvelously crafted, tautly written novel...
— Philadelphia Inquirer

Library Journal

Spark spikes the Geritol of a group of London senior citizens, who begin receiving anonymous phone calls reminding them that death is coming. These seemingly sweet old people, evidently, have some fairly dark pasts. Add in a dash of blackmail and a pinch of adultery, and you have some good, not-so-clean fun. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

Alan Taylor

Scotland has created just three great novelists his names still resound around the globe. The first was Walter Scott…the original best seller. His heir was Robert Louis Stevenson…Then came Muriel Spark, whose wit and wisdom sparkle like a Cartier diamond…
—Alan Taylor, Scotland—on—Sunday

Stephen Schiff

She had been a starving editor and writer in the classic style when success bonked her on the head in the late fifties…With Memento Mori, a complex, beautiful, and terrifyingly insightful novel about old age, which Graham Greene claimed 'has delighted me as much as any novel that I have read since the war.'
—Stephen Schiff, The New Yorker

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169909258
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/25/2005
Edition description:	Unabridged

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