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Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
Muriel Spark
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Description for Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
Paperback. Muriel Sparks's celebrated autobiography has been unavailable since her death in 2006. This new edition adds a preface by the poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 280. A Volume of Autobiography. 248 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 18. Weight: 280.
Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her formative years, up to the publication of her first novel in 1957. `In order to write about life as I intended to do, I felt I had first to live,' Spark says. In her account of her unhappy marriage in colonial Africa, her return to wartime London on a troop ship, working at the Foreign Office as one of the ... Read more
Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her formative years, up to the publication of her first novel in 1957. `In order to write about life as I intended to do, I felt I had first to live,' Spark says. In her account of her unhappy marriage in colonial Africa, her return to wartime London on a troop ship, working at the Foreign Office as one of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
276g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771025
SKU
V9781847771025
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About Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. After some years living in Africa, she returned to England, where she edited Poetry Review from 1947 to 1949 and published her first volume of poems, The Fanfarlo, in 1952. She eventually made her home in Italy. Her many novels include Memento Mori (1959), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The ... Read more
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