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Memento mori - Muriel Spark, Maria Grazia Griffini Rosnati
Memento mori
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788845916182 (8845916189)
Publisher: Adelphi
Pages no: 274
Edition language: Italian
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
2.0 Memento Mori
Memento Mori - "Remember you must die" is the message that an anonymous caller issues to several elderly people, who all react differently to receiving the nuisance calls. What follows is a confused look into the lives of the recipients of these calls and into the way that society neglects the eld...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
4.0 Memento Mori
The voice on the telephone won't stop reminding Dame Lettie Colston that she must die. The police won't take her seriously and even her brother doesn't believe her until he starts receiving calls himself. 'Memento Mori' primarily involves two groups of elderly people: Dame Lettie's set, and the resi...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
4.0 Memento Mori
The voice on the telephone won't stop reminding Dame Lettie Colston that she must die. The police won't take her seriously and even her brother doesn't believe her until he starts receiving calls himself. Memento Mori primarily involves two groups of elderly people: Dame Lettie's set and the residen...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
4.0 This Could Be the Last Day of Your Life: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 15 November 2013 The plot of Memento Mori revolves around a circle of Londoners in their seventies and eighties who have known each other for ages, most of them well-to-do and suffering to different degrees from the common afflictions o...
deborahmarkus7
deborahmarkus7 rated it
5.0 Memento Mori
This is a strange, beautiful, eerily elegant book. The premise is simple: several elderly British people have been receiving phone calls from someone who says, “Remember you must die.” How each of them responds to this message is the story, which is deeply humorous without being flippant.I was surpr...
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