Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark - ISBN: 9781844082483
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Art, reality collide when a writer’s fiction comes to life.

Loitering With Intent

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    7 June 2007

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Summary

This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark’s delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981.

Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members are all at work on their memoirs. When her employer gets his hands on Fleur’s novel-in-progress, mayhem ensues when i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844082483
ISBN-10:1844082482
Author:Muriel Spark, Mark Lawson
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Edition:New edition
Release Date:7 June 2007
Weight:131g
Dimensions:134mm x 201mm x 13mm
Series:Virago Modern Classics
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Critics Review

Unflagging wit and inventiveness

The most gloriously entertaining novel since THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - A.N. Wilson, SPECTATOR

I read this book in a delirium of delight…robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliantly mischievous one - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Unflagging wit and inventiveness - TIME MAGAZINE

This is Muriel Spark in the splendid form of those marvellous and influential novels of her earlier career - THE TIMES

The most gloriously entertaining novel since THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - A.N. Wilson, SPECTATOR

I read this book in a delirium of delight…robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliantly mischievous one - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Unflagging wit and inventiveness - TIME MAGAZINE

This is Muriel Spark in the splendid form of those marvellous and influential novels of her earlier career - THE TIMES

About The Author

Muriel Spark

Born in Edinburgh, Muriel Spark was internationally famous and received the Italia Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger and the Saltire Prize, among many others. She was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978 and to L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 1988. She died in April 2006.

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