In Scottish writer Muriel Spark’s 1968 novel, The Public Image, actress Annabel Christopher is obsessed with her appearance. She pleases obsessed fans and paparazzi with a made-up persona, and everyone is a casualty for the sake of her image, even her husband, Frederick, who she uses as part of the ruse to keep up with […]
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