Muriel Spark
The Biography
$35.34
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2010
Summary
Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended as the epitome of literary chic, one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
It 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753827499 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753827492 |
| Author: | Martin Stannard |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 48mm |
| Series: | Phoenix |
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Written by Martin Stannard, a renowned academic, and 17 years in the making, Muriel Spark is a ‘Cinderella story’ of how an only child from a working-class family became a literary great. - The West Australian
Stannard’s exhaustively researched biography, a decade in the writing and encouraged by its subject before her death in 2006, steers a careful course to ensure that full-blown melodrama is avoided. - The Sydney Morning HeraldStannard has written a superb life of Muriel Spark, never diminishing what was difficult in her personality, never forgetting the significance of the work. The Muriel Spark he evokes is extraordinary in the face of every frailty. She was, in defiance of every inner demon and external obstacle, so brave. - The AgeAbout The Author
Martin Stannard
Martin Stannard is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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