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Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard (Hardcover, 2009)
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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 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 (1957) and with MEMENTO MORI, THE BALLAD OF PECKAM 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. In 1992 Spark invited Martin Stannard to write her biography, offering interviews and full access to her papers. The result is a compelling portrait of an extraordinary life.Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780297815921
eBay Product ID (ePID)86709511
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Book TitleMuriel Spark: the Biography
AuthorMartin Stannard
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2009
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages656 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height238mm
Item Width161mm
Item Weight1012g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMartin Stannard
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 06 Dec, 2022
Perceptive insight into Muriel Spark
I’m fascinated by Muriel Spark whose novels I find so witty and perceptive, so I was keen to read her biography. This gives a real insight into her life and work. Professor Stannard, though objective, is maybe a little bit in love with his subject despite the age gapVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
