Loitering With Intent

Zusatztext This is Muriel Spark in the splendid form of those marvellous and influential novels of her earlier career Informationen zum Autor Muriel Spark, D.B.E, C. Litt, was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, a comedy, 'Doctors of Philosophy', first performed in London in 1962, and biographies. She is best known for her stories and many successful novels, including Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering With Intent, The Comforters, A Far Cry from Kensington and The Public Image. For her long career of literary achievement, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. Muriel Spark was given an honorary doctorate of Letters from a number of universities, London, Edinburgh and Oxford among these. She died in 2006. Klappentext New edition of this extremely clever and entertaining novel, published as a "Virago Modern Classic" with an introduction by Mark Lawson. This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life. Zusammenfassung This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.

Product details

• Authors: Muriel Spark
• Assisted by: Mark Lawson (Introduction), Lawson Mark (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9781844082483
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-248-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 134 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago modern classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary