The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark - ISBN: 9780141188348
Paperback
Holiday turns dark: a desperate woman seeks destruction abroad.

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    31 May 2006

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Summary

New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants’ office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eter…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141188348
ISBN-10:0141188340
Author:Muriel Spark, John Lanchester
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:31 May 2006
Weight:92g
Dimensions:197mm x 127mm x 9mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

The Driver’s Seat is a scalpel, cutting away the excess of the traditional novel and leaving only the core. It is a stiletto, piercing straight to the heart - or thereabouts

The Driver’s Seat is a scalpel, cutting away the excess of the traditional novel and leaving only the core. It is a stiletto, piercing straight to the heart - or thereabouts – John Self

About The Author

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark (Author)

Muriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She wrote poetry, stories, biographies, and a remarkable series of novels. She won countless awards, was made an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1993 was given an OBE. She died in April 2006.

John Lanchester (Introducer)

John Lanchester is a journalist, novelist and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, with a monthly column in Esquire. John was raised in South-East Asia and now lives in London.

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