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050	0	0	_aPR6037.P29 _bZ92 2010b
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100	1		_aStannard, Martin _d(1947 -)
245	1	0	_aMuriel Spark : _bthe biography _c/ Martin Stannard.
260			_aEvanston, IL _b: Northwestern University Press _c, 2011, c2009
300			_a627 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [585]-600) and index.
505	0	0	_tPreface: The Cake Be Damned -- Night and Day: 1962-1918 -- Home and Away: 1918-1937 -- Out of Africa: 1937-1945 -- Finding a Voice: 1945-1949 -- Kensington: 1949-1951 -- Sacramental: 1951-1954 -- Conversion: 1954-1957 -- Acquiring Lorgnettes: 1957-1959 -- Exposure: 1959-1960 -- Transfiguration: 1960-1962 -- Time / Life: 1962-1963 -- Amours de Voyage: 1963-1965 -- Looking Round: 1965-1968 -- In the Driver's Seat: 1968-1970 -- Lucrezia Borgia in Trousers: 1971 -1974 -- The Realm of Mythology: 1974-1979 -- Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye: 1979-1982 -- A Speck in the Distance: 1982-1988 -- Settling the Bill: 1988-1992 -- Dark Music: 1992-2006.
520	3		_aIn 1992 the Spark invited Martin Stannard to write her biography, offering interviews and full access to her papers. The result is this biography of the Scottish author.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aSpark, Muriel
650		4	_aWomen authors, Scottish _y-20th century _vBiography
650		4	_aNovelist
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