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A balance between fact and fantasy is humorously portrayed in the person of an aspiring author, Miss Talbot, who goes to work as a secretary in 1949.
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Fiction, Autobiography, Women novelists in fiction, Autobiography in fiction, Authorship, Fiction in fiction, Young women in fiction, Young women, Extortion in fiction, Women novelists, Extortion, Societies, Bildungsromans, Didactic fiction, Fiction, coming of age, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Authors, fiction, Young women, fiction, Art and literature, English literaturePlaces
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Loitering with Intent
2014, New Directions Publishing Corporation, New Directions
in English
0811223035 9780811223034
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Loitering with intent
1981, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
in English
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0698110471 9780698110472
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From Publisher's Weekly: "Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members are all at work on their memoirs. When her employer gets his hands on Fleur's novel-in-progress, mayhem ensues when its scenes begin coming true. Generating hilarious turns of phrase and larger-than-life characters (especially Sir Quentin's batty mother), Sparks's inimitable style make this literary joyride thoroughly appealing."
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