Synopsis
Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.
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Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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A movie star in Rome loses touch with reality in Spark's witty expose of superficiality, first published in 1968.
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Condition: Very Good. 8th. A very good paperback, 8th edition, with crinkles & age signs on covers as in image, creased spine text very good+ with minor tanning. Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "The English Lady-Tiger"), who has made the fatal mistake of believing in her public image. This error and her embittered husband, and unsuccessful actor, catch up with her. Her final act is only the first shocking climaxâÂÂ"further surprises await. Neatly savaging our celebrity culture, Spark rejoices in one of her favorite subjectsâÂÂ"the clash between sham and genuine identityâÂÂ"and provides Annabel with an unexpected triumph. Seller Inventory # PA2021
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Pages have lightly tanned, otherwise a very nice copy, clean and well bound 5 X 7.75" 125 pages. Annabel Christopher is an actress. She lives in publicity-mad Rome and her public image is everything to her: a screen on to which are projected her refined English smiles, her tiger eyes, and colour-bright shots of herself and her husband in love. In fact, her husband Frederick cannot bear her and her vapid uneventful internal life. His sense of drama being far greater than hers, he stages a scandal - his own suicide - in an attempt to destroy her public image. But Annabel prevails - **Bundle Up * Save On Postage**. Seller Inventory # 580266
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