The Public Image

The Public Image
First edition (UK)
Author	Muriel Spark
Cover artist	Renate Belina^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Macmillan (UK) Knopf (US)
Publication date	1968
Media type	Print
Pages	192
ISBN	0-333-09018-7

The Public Image is a novel published in 1968 by Scottish author Muriel Spark and shortlisted for the Booker Prize the following year.^[2]

It is set in Rome and concerns Annabel Christopher, an up-and-coming film actress. Annabel carefully cultivates her image to keep her career on course, managing to mask her lack of talent. But she reckons without her husband Frederick's loathing of his wife's manipulations and inexplicable success for which he plans his final revenge.

The novel inspired the name of the band Public Image Ltd., which John Lydon formed in 1978 following the breakup of the Sex Pistols.

References

↑ 1969 Booker Prize Retrieved 30-01-2014.
↑ http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/books/220

External links

Study Guide

Novels by Muriel Spark

The Comforters (1957)
Robinson (1958)
Memento Mori (1959)
The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
The Bachelors (1960)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
The Public Image (1968)
The Driver's Seat (1970)
Not to Disturb (1971)
The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
The Takeover (1976)
Territorial Rights (1979)
Loitering with Intent (1981)
The Only Problem (1984)
A Far Cry From Kensington (1988)
Symposium (1990)
Reality and Dreams (1996)
Aiding and Abetting (2000)
The Finishing School (2004)

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