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Apr 15, 2024 · 21 – Muriel Spark – The Driver’s Seat (1970) In his introduction to this tiny, meticulously crafted novella, John Lanchester concedes that ‘it isn’t possible to discuss this book without giving away what happens.’. This is mainly because the narrator drops in massive spoilers early on.
Apr 28, 2024 · Born Muriel Camberg, she was the youngest child of Bernard Camberg, an engineer, and his wife Sarah. Born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh in 1918, Muriel Spark was educated at James Gillespie ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Muriel Spark Aiding and Abetting (2000) April 17, 2024 / DC / 0 Comments ‘God, or the absence of God, has always been Muriel Spark’s subject, so it comes as little surprise that the Devil makes an appearance on the very first page of her new novel.
Apr 15, 2024 · In The Driver’s Seat this institutionally patriarchal report writes to type and blames the female victim (whose name is an anagram of ‘lies’) for being complicit in her own rape and murder.
Apr 29, 2024 · The Girls of Slender Means isn’t as caustic as some of Spark’s books (my favourite being The Driver’s Seat) but there is an acidity running throughout its brief length that undercuts the sweeter moments among friends. These women are largely traumatized by the war, although it’s never outright expressed.
5 days ago · Her only film released in 1974, the Italian Muriel Spark adaptation The Driver's Seat (1974), was a failure.: 371–375 Taylor took fewer roles after the mid-1970s, and focused on supporting the career of her sixth husband, Republican politician John Warner, a US senator.
Apr 16, 2024 · The supreme example is The Driver’s Seat (1970): the tale of a female murderee, in which everything is both wholly unexplained and clear as rain water. It is a work of such impeccable genius that I can only ask of it the ultimate fan’s question: ‘How has she done this?’.
