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A Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Observer, Guardian and Tablet Book of the Summer
Absolutely mesmerizing. I was captivated by this book in the same way that I suspect its author was captivated by Spark. It still hasn’t let me go - SPECTATOR
Unputdownable - FINANCIAL TIMES
Joyously, brilliantly intelligent. In Wilson, Spark has found her true match - ANNE ENRIGHT
From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark. The word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is ‘puzzling’. Spark was a puzzle, and so are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was made up of strange accidents, odd coincidences, and eerie events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as ‘Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes’. Following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark left for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography, and archives, Frances Wilson aims to decipher her code.
Electric Spark examines not the famous Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers. We go back to her early years when everything was happening: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, scheming, blackmail, love affairs, revenge, and a major religious conversion. If this sounds like a novel by Muriel Spark, it is because the experiences of the 1940s and 1950s became, in an alchemical process, the material of her art.
A brilliant, wonderfully shrewd biography - WILLIAM BOYD
Perfectly executed, electrifying. Reinforces Wilson's position as the leading British biographer - RACHEL HOLMES
Pages: 432, Year of Publication: 0930, Dimensions: 16.8x16.8cm
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- Author
- Frances Wilson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
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- Release Date
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- Publication Date
- 2025
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- ISBN-13
- 9781526663030
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