Voices at Play

Stories and earpieces

SPARK, Muriel

SPARK, Muriel Voices at Play Stories and earpieces

Macmillan, 1961.

First edition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, in the dustwrapper by Victor Reinganum. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to her landlady of many years at Baldwin Crescent, 'Tiny' Lazzari, "Dear Mrs Lazzari from Muriel with heaps of love, July 1961". A very good copy indeed, in a very good dustwrapper, a little worn at the extremities.

Voices At Play collects for the first time four radio plays and six short stories.
A fine association, inscribed to a "crucial figure in her life" (Stannard).
"Muriel left Allington Castle in August 1955... She longed to reconnect herself to the normality - and anonymity - of the metropolis... Father O'Malley had a niece, Teresa Walshe, who lodged with a Catholic landlady. It was one of the best introductions Muriel ever received. 'Tiny' Lazzari was a vivacious, chirruping Irish widow with a Cork accent, small of stature, big of heart." (Stannard - Muriel Spark: The Biography)
During the ten years Spark stayed at Bedford Crescent she established herself as one of the pre-eminent post war British novelists. During that period Lazzari became an important figure in Spark's life, acting as sounding board, confidant and (when required) gatekeeper as well as a close friend.
"Evelyn Waugh once wrote to me to say that now I was becoming established I should move to a good address. On paper, the advice was of course very wise. But nothing would part me from Tiny Lazzari and my rooms at 13 Baldwin Crescent" (Spark - Curriculum Vitae)

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