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Appointment in Arezzo : a friendship with Muriel Spark

Taylor, Alan2017
Books, Manuscripts
An intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscrete and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti at the kitchen table, that she was upset that the academic whom she had appointed her official biographer did not appear to think that she had ever cracked a joke in her life. Alan Taylor here sets the record straight about this and many other things. With sources ranging from notebooks kept from his very first encounter with Muriel and the hundreds of letters they exchanged over the years, this is an invaluable portrait of one of Edinburgh's premiere novelists.
Author:
Taylor, Alan, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Polygon, 2017.
Collation:
175 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781846973758 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920SPA920.SPAR920.SPARB.SPAB SPA920 SPA823.914B920.SPAB. SPAANF ANF920 SPAR920920.823.914823
LC class:
PR6037.P29
Chinese class:
B/SPA
Local class:
B SPA920.1920.SPAB/SPAB.SPRB.SPA
Language:
English
BRN:
2050182
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