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The Hothouse by the East River is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1973. The main two settings of the novel both reflect the author's life where she lived in Manhattan and where she worked in a POW camp in Britain in World War II .
1 de ene. de 2001 · The Hothouse by the East River is a strange little novel, at once oddly unsettling and other worldly. Written in the present tense – a style Muriel Spark had already employed to great effect in The Driver’s Seat, lending her story an immediacy that works well here.
20 de mar. de 2012 · As Paul and Elsa’s involvement in World War II espionage begins to surface, the glitz and glamor of their lives is revealed to be nothing more than illusion. The Hothouse by the East River is a delirious satire of superficial urban life in the shadow of one of modern history’s great horrors.
20 de mar. de 2012 · The Hothouse by the East River: A Novel. Muriel Spark. Open Road Media, Mar 20, 2012 - Fiction - 138 pages. DIVDIV Touched by madness and haunted by a secret past, Paul and Elsa’s relationship...
30 de abr. de 1973 · The Hothouse by the East River. Hardcover – April 30, 1973. In 1973 Paul and Elsa are living in New York. In 1944 they were both involved in intelligence work in England, and with the arrival in New York of Helmut Kiel, one-time German POW and lover of Elsa, their past returns to haunt them.
8 de feb. de 2021 · The hothouse by the East River by Spark, Muriel. Publication date 1982 Topics Fiction in English 1945- Texts Publisher London : Granada Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 272.7M . 139p. ; 18 cm
The Hothouse by the East River is a delirious satire of superficial urban life in the shadow of one of modern history’s great horrors. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.
