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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)by: Muriel Spark  List Price: $22.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.96 You Save: $7.04 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 8223.914 EAN: 9781400042067 ISBN: 1400042062 Label: Everyman's Library Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: April 06, 2004 Publisher: Everyman's Library Release Date: April 06, 2004 Studio: Everyman's Library Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The brevity of Muriel Spark’s novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark’s most celebrated novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils. 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. The Driver’s Seat follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Incantatory tragedyGreek poetry used epithets to pad out line metre, I remember being taught. Spark uses them to mark character. Small-eyed Sandy; stupid Mary; over and over the words are thrown up to the reader, at the oddest and least expected times. Those words inhere in Mary and Sandy, one feels. Even on a happy day, in a garden full of light, the stupidity, the pig-eyed squint. They cannot escape, even among the flowers, being what they are. The non-sequence of narration, too, makes inevitability clear: ... Read More Rating: - Extraordinary and chillingThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is, as Tom Farber said of Evan Connell's Mrs. Bridge, satire written with a scalpel. It's precise and sharp, and you also get the feeling things are being laid open and cut away. At times she is as cruel and cold (consider Mary, for instance, whose stupidity is described with disdain even as she is dying horrifically). You have to have a certain amount of tolerance for an author who just isn't very nice. This is a novel of exceptional complexity that ... Read More 
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