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New Directions
June 2001
On Sale: June 1, 2001
224 pages
ISBN: 0811214745
EAN: 9780811214742
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Fiction Family Life
"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
Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs, hilariously
writing their memoirs in advance—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?
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