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Muriel Spark - The Biography (Paperback)
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Muriel Spark - The Biography (Paperback)
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List price R479
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The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the
twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy
storytelling' (Mail on Sunday). Muriel Spark ended was one of the
great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story,
the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her
autobiography, Curriculum Vitae (1992), politely blurring the
intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother,
mother, son, husband; a terrifying period of hallucinations and
subsequent depression; and the disastrously misplaced love she had
felt for two men she had wanted to marry, Howard Sergeant and Derek
Stanford. Aged nineteen, Spark left Scotland to marry in Southern
Rhodesia, escaping back to Britain on a troopship in 1944 after her
divorce. Her son returned in 1945 to be brought up by her parents
in Edinburgh while she established herself as a poet and critic in
London. After becoming a Roman Catholic in 1954, she began a novel,
The Comforters, and with Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
and The Bachelors rose rapidly into the literary stratosphere. The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), with its adaptation into a
successful stage-play and film, marked her full translation into
international celebrity and from that point she went to live first
in New York, then Rome, and finally Tuscany where for over thirty
years, until her death in 2006, she shared a house with her
companion, the artist Penelope Jardine.
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Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2010 |
Authors: |
Martin Stannard
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Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 48mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
672 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7538-2749-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-7538-2749-2 |
Barcode: |
9780753827499 |
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