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Leo Robson looks at the life and work of this most single-minded and stimulating writer Cold mistress Muriel Spark: the Biography Martin Stannard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6/2pp, £25 Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a spirited, mischievous and subtly subversive writer - the author of biographies, stories and poems, as well as 22 pungent and tickling works of long-form fiction. [...] we should not demand that Spark's fiction correspond to something verifiable, merely that it cohere.
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Cold Mistress
Muriel Spark was a tricky woman, but her books are short and perfect. Leo Robson looks at the life and work of this most single-minded and stimulating writer Cold mistress Muriel Spark: the Biography Martin Stannard Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6/2pp, £25
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a spirited, mischievous and subtly subversive writer - the author of biographies, stories and poems, as well as 22 pungent and tickling works of long-form fiction. It would be curt simply to call these works "novels", because they so excel at making the reader ask, "What is a novel anyway?"The existing definitions tend to answer a question about length. E M Fo...See the full content of this document
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