false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171821151m/120158.jpg 120158 20 Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, <I>Memento Mori</I> is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, <I>Memento Mori</I> may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more. 2934614 1959 Memento Mori total:278|5:58|4:117|3:81|2:16|1:6| 278 1039 487 42 4 2 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 03:59:17 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 18:25:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 16:25:48 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 22:06:59 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 07:19:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 09:48:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat May 12 05:08:30 -0700 2007 Sat May 12 05:09:09 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 26 13:24:57 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 26 16:35:45 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Oct 16 05:43:29 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 02:52:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 16 12:28:34 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 12:28:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 09:50:53 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 10:05:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 17:06:52 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 09:12:41 -0800 2008 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Now, I really enjoyed TPoMJB, but it's told out of order in a very post-modernist w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 23 09:38:42 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 09:39:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 07:38:29 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 07:38:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 10 09:36:30 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 08:42:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 09:36:30 -0700 2008 but the real enjoyment I got from this book was Muriel Spark's style- sentences and dialogues joint an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 20 12:29:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 12:30:58 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 17 17:44:14 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 17:52:44 -0700 2009 Characters are caught by their own unique selves in their own particular circumstances. We create our lives. Things get resolved, or not. We die. A fun read.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 06:38:20 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 06:45:48 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 16 14:55:02 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 14:56:03 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Feb 22 09:52:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 09:53:02 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 03 08:50:37 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 08:56:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 21:03:27 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 10:42:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 05:13:50 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 19:12:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=120158