Set in Italy,
The Takeover follows the rivalries and affairs playing out in the sprawling villas owned by the indomitable and glamorous American millionaire Maggie Radcliffe. Riches, drinks, crooked servants, domestic intrigue, double-edged jokes and manipulation all come together in this sparkling European satire.
Despre autor
Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she is most well known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She also wrote children’s books, radio plays, the comedy Doctors of Philosophy and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë. Muriel Spark has garnered international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Ingersoll T.S. Eliot Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award, the first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.
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