false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170520727m/58677.jpg 58677 12 Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive <I>jeux d'esprit.</I> "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the peculiar Autobiographial Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance&#151;or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case. But when its pompous director, Sir Quentin Oliver, steals the manuscript of Fleur's new novel, fiction begins to appropriate life. The association's members begin to act out scenes exactly as Fleur herself has already written them in her missing manuscript. And as they meet darkly funny, pre-visioned fates, where does art start or reality end? "A delicious conundrum," <I>The New Statesman</I> called <I>Loitering with Intent.</I> 1725461 1981 Loitering with Intent total:170|5:38|4:85|3:35|2:11|1:1| 170 658 273 27 3 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 08 16:34:01 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 16:34:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:37:29 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 03:39:15 -0800 2009
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A) Purchased at the Printer Row Book Fair based on the picture of the author and the paisley book jacket.

B) In general, being British is a bump in points. But a post-war British hipster girl who has an affinity for whiskey? Hot.

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