Appointment in Arezzo : a friendship with Muriel Spark / Alan Taylor.
Publication details: Edinburgh, UK : Polygon, 2017.Description: 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 1846973759
- 9781846973758
- Appointment in Arezzo
- 823.914 23
- PR6037.P29 Z94 2017
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 823.914 TAY | Available | 068019 |
1.San Giovanni -- 2.Edinburgh, Nevertheless -- 3.Altogether A European -- 4.Seeking With New Eyes -- 5.Manhattan Revisited -- 6.A Question of Jewishness -- 7.Through This Evening and Into Tonight.
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscrete and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti at the kitchen table, that she was upset that the academic whom she had appointed her official biographer did not appear to think that she had ever cracked a joke in her life. Alan Taylor here sets the record straight about this and many other things.