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Loitering with Intent.

Loitering with Intent.

Loitering with Intent.
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Loitering with Intent.

by SPARK**, MURIEL:

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ISBN 10
0370309006
ISBN 13
9780370309002
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink ownership inscrptn to front fep and price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated,grey background and blue and orange letters designed dw/dj by Michael Harvey; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present,and spine/backstrip slightly sunned/ faded(?) to orange letters. Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with miniscule reciprocal creases.Top edge slightly aged/toned but clean and foxing-free;fore-edge considerably cleaner with a few tiny,tiny smudges; contents bright,tight and clean,near pristine.Unblemished,plain orange paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers with no sign of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-221pp includes half-title+title pages,and 12 chapters. One day (30 June 1950, to be precise) Fleur Talbot was sitting in a graveyard in Kensington,writing a poem,eating a sandwich,in need of a job,and despite all that had happened feeling how wonderful it was to be a woman and an artist in the middle of the twentieth century.Ten months earlier she had found a job - and a very odd one too.She was hired by Sir Quentin Oliver,head of the Autobiographical Association (non-profit making),to assist people of very minor eminence to write accounts of their lives.The half dozen or so members of the Association all suffer from nostalgia,paranoia and a transparent craving to appear likeable, but,eccentric though they may be,they are less puzzling than Sir Quentin himself.Is he a harmless snob or a dangerous manipulator of other people's lives, a psychological Jack the Ripper? For Fleur,engaged in writing her first novel,Warrender Chase,this is,naturally,an absorbing question.Before a year has passed,during which the amazing characters who surround her give her exotic food for thought,even more fantastic questions present themselves. Who is mad and who is sane? Is truth stranger than fiction and,harder to answer,which is which? 'I do dearly love a turn of events,' Fleur confesses at one point;and the slightly sinister,wildly funny story she tells provides rich chances for her,and us,to relish the taste of the unexpected. 'Loitering with Intent' returns to the London scene of some of Muriel Spark's earlier triumphs.For sheer inventiveness and entertainment it must rank as one of her very best books.See also rja2110, rja2113 - rja2115 inclusive (rja2115 - another copy.) for other Muriel Spark titles. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja2114
Title
Loitering with Intent.
Author
SPARK**, MURIEL:
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0370309006
ISBN 13
9780370309002
Publisher
LONDON.BODLEY HEAD,1981.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1981
Keywords
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