Loitering with Intent

Loitering with Intent
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780811219754
ISBN-13 : 0811219755
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Book Synopsis Loitering with Intent by : Muriel Spark

Download or read book Loitering with Intent written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.


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