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Like a Cat Loves a Bird : The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, James.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer."--Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means "She was, if you believe what you.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue: The Sitter
- 1. The Onlooker
- 2. The Girl at an Impressionable Age
- 3. The Wife
- 4. The Good Liar
- 5. The Girl of Slender Means
- 6. The Convert
- 7. The Experimentalist
- 8. The Witness
- 9. The Hothouse Flower
- 10. The Public Image
- 11. The Companion
- 12. The Intellectual Monster
- 13. The Woman on the Hill
- Epilogue: The Revenant
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-29018-0
- OCLC:
- 1586549864
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