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The Public Image

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The Public Image
First edition (UK)
AuthorMuriel Spark
Cover artistRenate Belina[1]
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan (UK)
Knopf (US)
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages192
ISBN0-333-09018-7

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.


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