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...Go-Away Bird, by Muriel Spark. In the title novella and in ten accompanying short stories-mostly semi-supernatural suspense tales-the talented Scottish novelist displays her deft style and consummate con-woman skill in unmasking the hoaxing face of the world...
...GO-AWAY BIRD (215 pp.)-Muriel Spark-Lipplncoff...
Daphne's childhood is haunted by the go-away bird, a grey-crested lourie, or parrot, whose eponymous cry seems to her a command to leave the provincial, semisavage, secondhand and second-rate life of a British African colony for the authentic glories of historic England. Alas, her dreams are of a "land that was not, that is passed away"-the Rupert Brooke-ish Lubberland where the church clock stands at ten to 3, and there is honey still for tea, where life is a vision of white flannels on a vicarage lawn, and the Guard is always being...