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Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.

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"Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her." -- Stephen Schiff - The New Yorker
"Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions." -- James Wood - The Guardian
"A very rare bird…Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver’s Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire." -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places

Not to Disturb

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      Publisher: New Directions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/10/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780811218672, 978-0811218672
      ISBN10: 0811218678

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.

      Trade Review
      "Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her." -- Stephen Schiff - The New Yorker
      "Her books enact a modern anxiety about the viability of fiction while being full of old-fashioned novelistic consolations and satisfactions." -- James Wood - The Guardian
      "A very rare bird…Spark explored [her] metafictional-theological theme further in the brilliant and audacious novellas The Driver’s Seat and Not to Disturb, which I especially admire." -- David Lodge, author of Changing Places

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