The Driver′s Seat - Softcover

Muriel Spark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811223019 ISBN 13: 9780811223010

Publisher: New Directions, 1697

Synopsis

Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her trip takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate.

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About this title

Review:

'Her spiny and treacherous masterpiece' --New Yorker

'An extraordinary tour de force, a crime story turned inside out' --David Lodge

About the Author:

Muriel Spark (born February 1, 1918) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She began writing seriously after the war, beginning with poetry and literary criticism. In 1947, she became editor of the Poetry Review. Her first novel The Comforters was published in 1957, but it was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962) which established her reputation. After living in New York for some years, she settled in Italy in the late 1960s. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1697
• ISBN 10: 0811223019
• ISBN 13: 9780811223010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112