Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark

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Résumé :
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the literary world at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance - or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association's pompous director steals Fleur's manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life....

Biographie:
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver's Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993....

Sommaire:
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the literary world at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance - or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association's pompous director steals Fleur's manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life....