Loitering With Intent (First American Edition)

Spark, Muriel

ISBN 10: 0698110471 / ISBN 13: 9780698110472

Published by : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, 1981

About this Item

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A crisp, bright copy. Publisher's original price of $12.95 intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 217 pages. Spark s sixteenth novel follows aspiring writer Fleur Talbot as she navigates a peculiar autobiographical fiction project and a literary society full of secrets and sabotage. Often seen as a comic reflection on the art of fiction itself, the novel blends metafiction and social satire with Spark s trademark precision and wit. Shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize.

Seller Inventory # Fiction-Spark-3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loitering With Intent (First American Edition)
• Publisher: : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0698110471
• ISBN 13: 9780698110472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British and Irish Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A young aspiring novelist in post-World War II London finds the dreadfully dull life stories of a group of eccentrics called the Autobiographical Association begin to liven up with a series of events that is uncannily similar to the plot of her own unfinished novel.

About the Author

Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the author of over twenty novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as well as critical biographies, radio plays, children's books, poetry, and short-story collections. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993 and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1996.