Loitering with Intent
of Muriel Spark
Description
"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," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advanceâor poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case. But when its pompous director, Sir Quentin Oliver, steals the manuscript of Fleur's new novel, fiction begins to appropriate life. The association's members begin to act out scenes exactly as Fleur herself has already written them in her missing manuscript. And as they meet darkly funny, pre-visioned fates, where does art start or reality end? "A delicious conundrum," The New Statesman called Loitering with Intent.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date June 17th 2001
- First Publication 05/22/81
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811214742
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['London, England']
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