Volume 44, Number 12 · July 17, 1997
No Man's Land
By Gabriele Annan
Reality and Dreams
by Muriel Spark
Houghton Mifflin, 160 pp., $22.00
Muriel Spark's new novel is her twentieth, and very short. It ends on page 160, which is a slight cheat on the publisher's part, because every chapter ending on a right-hand page is followed by a blank one. Still, it enhances the elegant look of the book and so matches Spark's own habitual and idiosyncratic elegance of writing. This combines grand seigneurial lavishness with the delicate economy associated with the city of her birth, Edinburgh, where her famous heroine, Miss Jean Brodie, taught in a school modeled on the one Spark herself attended.
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