The Finishing School
Spark, Muriel
From Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since November 23, 2001
From Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since November 23, 2001
About this Item
1st American Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Muriel Spark on a bookplate on front end page (signature only). $16.95 price present on DJ flap. unread copy. Author's last novel. Also includes laid-in a photocopy of letter sent from author's assistant saying Ms. Spark has signed bookplates. Also includes laid-in the original review from New York Times Book review. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Sparks' novel "Symposium"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 016708
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Finishing School
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
The lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel by one of the world’s most admired writers
College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction.
Nobody writing has a keener instinct than Muriel Spark for hypocrisy, self-delusion and moral ambiguity, or a more deliciously satirical eye. The Finishing School is certain to be another Spark landmark, an addition to one of the world’s most lauded and entertaining bodies of work.
Now available as a stunning Canon
'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI SMITH
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