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Loitering With Intent
Loitering With Intent
Author: Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive jeux d'esprit. "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380709359
ISBN-10: 038070935X
Publication Date: 3/1990
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Publisher: Avon Books (P)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Its 50s London and a first-time novelist is struggling with her creation. To keep life and limb together she takes a job as secretary to the Autobiographical Association at which she has to modify the memoirs of its members. She discovers two things. First the head of the association is evidently little more than a blackmailer, despite his English title. (Doesnt every English novel have a Lord or Lady?) Second the association seems to be a reflection of the characters in her yet-to-be finished novel. Life is imitating art and vice versa. Dont miss this twist on drama, intrigue, and political maneuvering from a master of literature.


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