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Curriculum VitaeMuriel SparkForeword by10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 20th Century, Christianity, Memoirs, Scottish, Women
Imprint: Lives and Letters Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2014) 9781784100919 £10.39 £9.35 Paperback (240 pages) (Pub. Nov 2009) 9781847771025 £12.99 £11.69 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
‘Who are you, darling?’ he said.
I thought it a very good question, and still do. I resolved, all those years ago, to write an autobiography which would help to explain, to myself and others: Who am I. Reissued ahead of the Muriel Spark Centenary in 2018. Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her formative years, up to the publication of her first novel in 1957. ‘In order to write about life as I intended to do, I felt I had first to live,’ Spark says. In her account of her unhappy marriage in colonial Africa, her return to wartime London on a troop ship, working at the Foreign Office as one of the ‘girls of slender means’, editing Poetry Review and her conversion to Catholicism, Muriel Spark outlines the life that provided material for some of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Photograph of Muriel Spark: Copyright Jerry Bauer. Cover design StephenRaw.com
Preface by Elaine Feinstein
Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Index
Like all her work, surprising, beautifully written, and with unnerving glimpses into the abyss which lies, always, beneath our feet.
- John Mortimer, Evening Standard 'The marvellous thing about Muriel Spark's writing is that...it never gets knotted up in its own so-sharp-she'll-cut-herself cleverness. Spark's writing has a subtle merriment about it, a lightness of touch, a willingness to share in fleeting moments of mundane love and pleasure.' Jenny Turner, London Review of Books Praise for Muriel Spark 'Mysterious, haunting, meticulously wrought.' Stand Magazine 'Spark achieves precisely what she sets out to: no surprise to us now but pretty impressive given that this was her first book.' Zoë Strachan, Scottish Review of Books 'The style is bracingly familiar â beady, ironic, acidulous... She is an astute critic.' Anthony Quinn, Daily Mail
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