Loitering With Intent
Muriel SparkCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
ReviewA delicious conundrum. -- The New Statesman
Generating hilarious turns of phrase and larger-than-life characters...Spark's inimitable style make this literary joyride thoroughly appealing. --Publishers Weekly, 18 June 2001
I found it a delight from start to finish—funny, unexpected and compulsively readable...this strange, immensely enjoyable novel. -- Auberon Waugh, Daily Mail
One of Spark's very best novels—funny and clever and surprising. -- The New Republic
The most intensely Sparkian of her books. -- The Listener
Though first published only 20 years ago, Spark's offbeat fiction certainly deserves a place in [ND's] line of contemporary classics. --Kirkus Reviews,, 15 February 2001
Unsurpassable. -- The Times Literary Supplement [London]
What a coolly crafted, wickedly funny novel this is! -- Daily Express
[A] delirium of delight....robust and full-bodied, a wise and mature work, and a brilliantly mischievous one. -- The New York Times Book Review Book Review
[O]ne of Muriel Spark's most accomplished moral fables or puzzles...it provides considerable insight and wit, and no easy answers. -- A.S. Byatt