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Article: Chaos and comfort
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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BOOK OF THE WEEK Muriel Spark: the biography By Martin Stannard
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON Pounds 25 (627pp) Pounds 22.50 (free p&p) from
the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030
It remains a mystery why Muriel Spark commissioned Martin
Stannard to write her authorised biography 17 years ago. She had
just published her rather sterile Curriculum Vitae: A volume of
autobiography (1992), which had ended with the publication of her
outstanding first novel The Comforters (1957). A second volume of
memoirs did not appear, although it was planned. At the age of 74,
and beginning to suffer from ill-health, Spark clearly wanted to add
to the 19 novels that she had published to date, not to mention her ...
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