![]() ![]() Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance. And THE ONLY PROBLEM is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism.Ĭharacters are vividly etched in a few words earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. ![]() THE DRIVER’S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. To start with, the story appears to be following many Hollywood plots: Miss Brodie is the teacher who raises their students, who is inspirational and overcomes. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. ![]() In the case of Hugh, the separation is irreversible, due to his heroic death. Spark’s most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils. Both men were victims of the First World War, and both have been made unavailable to Miss Brodie. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. The brevity of Muriel Spark’s novels is equaled only by their brilliance. The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at her causing his 1955 lynching in Mississippi, which galvanized a generation of. ![]()
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