Loitering with Intent

by Muriel Spark

Overview

Where does art start or reality end?

Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811223034
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/27/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.

Editorial Reviews

[A] delirium of delight....robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliantly mischievous one.

New York Times Book Review Book Review

[O]ne of Muriel Spark's most accomplished moral fables or puzzles...it provides considerable insight and wit, and no easy answers.

A.S. Byatt

I found it a delight from start to finish—funny, unexpected and compulsively readable...this strange, immensely enjoyable novel. —Daily Mail

Auberon Waugh