What: The phone rings. You answer --- a voice tells you, "Remember you must die," and then the caller hangs up.
When this happens to some nubile youths, it's the premise for a splatter fest. When it happens, as it does here, to a group of elderly posh people, you've got something dark, unsettling, delicate, fast, and funny. Yes, funny.
Representative quote: "It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young."
How to get it: Muriel Spark's short novel is buyable, borrowable, and Kindle-able.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Spark wrote several dark and clever books, and I listed many of them as part of List #58: Happy Birthday, Muriel Spark.
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