Volume 51, Number 18 · November 18, 2004
In Sparkworld
By John Lanchester
The Finishing School
by Muriel Spark
Doubleday, 181 pp., $16.95
A reader picking up Muriel Spark's first novel, The Comforters, at the time of its publication in 1957, might have noticed that the author was thirty-nine years old, and have thought that he was encountering the work of a late developer. It is not an impression that would have survived the reading of the book's first paragraphs:
Review, 3529 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |