{"product_id":"martin-stannard-muriel-spark-9780393051742","title":"Muriel Spark","description":"\"Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark-dark queen of postwar British fiction and, for me at least, one of the great writers of all time-is as astonishing as his subject. In his chronicle of her rich, adverse, and inexplicable life and work he has, like a brilliant lepidopterist, managed to catch her and pin her down while preserving her elusive genius as an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.\" -Jenny McPhee, author of A Man of No Moon\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Excellent . . . superbly detailed . . . , patient, affectionate, sometimes funny and . . . very intelligent. It is hard to believe that the work could have been done better.\" -Frank Kermode, London Review of Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Will undoubtedly be the standard biography of a writer with perhaps the most distinctive voice . . . in postwar British fiction.\" -Mark Bostridge, The Observer\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"This account will not be surpassed.\" -Bryan Cheyette, The Independent\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Gripping, . . . rich, complex . . . well worth the wait. Witty, readable, and well researched, it is about as satisfying as a literary biography can be.\" -Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"[Stannard's] triumph is to have produced an account that . . . revealed [Spark's] vanity and egotism so unmistakably, as well as her courage, vitality and determination.\" -John Carey, The Times\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Stannard is himself now a giant of his genre. . . . [He] brilliantly and sympathetically effaces the self-mythology of Spark's well-known public image . . . a gifted biographer with a fine turn of phrase.\" Martin McQuillan, Times Higher Education Supplement\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"A wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling.\" -Katheryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Exceptionally well written and lively.\" -Robin Baird-Smith, Tablet\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"A best biography of the year.\" ?Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph","brand":"Blue Guides Limited of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53648355557718,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780393051742_1.jpg?v=1778735424","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/martin-stannard-muriel-spark-9780393051742","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}