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Muriel Spark: The Biography

Muriel Spark: The Biography


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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.

About the Author :
Martin Stannard is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1998 he won an Arts Council Writers Award for an early section of this book. He lives near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

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She would surely be pleased with the finished product... his triumph is to have produced an account that survived her scrutiny yet reveals her vanity and egotism so unmistakably, as well as her courage, vitality and determination. - THE SUNDAY TIMES LEAD REVIEW - 3.08.09 - John Carey

its research into her life certainly is detailed and fascinating... an exhaustive and fascinating story. - THE EVENING STANDARD - 6.08.09 - Geordie Greig, Editor

This fine life explains why Muriel Spark numbers among the creme de la creme of modern novelists... many fine vignettes... this is a biography that has been worth the long wait. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'S SEVEN MAGAZINE - 02.08.09 - Jonathan Bate

gripping.. a rich, complex, quagmire of a book, Muriel Spark is well worth the wait. Witty, readable, and well researched, it is as about as satisfying as a literary biography can be. - DAILY TELEGRAPH - 03.08.09 - Frances Wilson

Martin Stannard's biography will become the standard work on one of Britain's finest postwar writers. - THE OBSERVER - 2.08.09 - Mark Bostridge

precise and perceptive... a pioneering biography - THE TIMES - 1.08.09 - Iain Finlayson

Stannard is particularly interesting on Spark's early, unredeemed years... a gifted biographer with a fine turn of phrase. - THE INDEPENDENT - 7.08.09 - Brian Cheyette

Martin Stannard has written a diligent biography of Mur


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297815921
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 656
  • Spine Width: 43 mm
  • Weight: 1012 gr
  • ISBN-10: 029781592X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Biography
  • Width: 161 mm


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