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| Original Title: | The Finishing School |
| ISBN: | 1400077397 (ISBN13: 9781400077397) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Elba (2005) |
Muriel Spark
Paperback | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 3.04 | 1268 Users | 208 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Finishing School |
| Author | : | Muriel Spark |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | November 8th 2005 by Anchor (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Audiobook |
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College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, 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 Rowland’s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.Rating Appertaining To Books The Finishing School
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Rowland and Nina Mahler both run College Sunshine, a travelling finishing school for the young and wealthy. Richard, who is trying to finish (and start) his novel, becomes obsessed with Chris, a 17-year-old student, whose own vaguely historical novel is showing far more progress and has attracted the attention of publishers. Stuff happens, though not much. Muriel Spark's last novel, already quite slender, is also rather thin, story-wise, and even flatter, when it comes to characters. But theA small school relocates in Switzerland with its pupils and teachers. There is a fierce competition between one of the owners, a would be novelist, and one of the students, who is writing a historic novel about Mary Queen of Scots. The other owner offers special, short sessions of useless information. Sardonic and short, this was a fun read, but the story falls apart at the end."In case you are thinking of getting a job at the United Nations," Nina told them, "I have picked up a bit of
Book #2 of a 24h marathon on the 26th of April 2015The book revolves around a small finishing school run by a married couple (who happen to be oblivious to this fact). There is a 17year old boy named Chris who is writing an exceptional novel and Mr. Rowland tends to get so jealous of this kid's ability to be sucessful that he is fine to go to great lenghts to stop him.That's it. That's the story. 160 pages of pure bluntness. I wonder what went through Spark's head while publishing this because I
This was a quick read - short and sweet. I liked it enough but didn't love it. Set in a Finishing School, where well to do families send their children to absorb some culture and learn a little about the world before launching out into it. It is run by a young couple, Rowland and Nina, who have a small select group of students, amongst them Chris a 17 year old aspiring novelist. Chris's perceived success torments Rowland, who is struggling with his own writing. Neither can work with, nor
This is shocking for me to admit but I forgot I had read this book previously. The plot was that boring. If I didn't have to read this for a friend's book club I would have probably just stopped and chosen another book. Instead I found an audiobook copy that was narrated by a narrator, Nadia May, I have had good experiences with previously. Let me start off this review by saying the writing in this novella isn't bad. Truth be told the writing is just fine, and it could have been a good book
Although a short book, it took me two days to read as I was not particularly drawn in by either the plot or the characters. While the novel was set in the present time, I did not feel like the author was able to recreate today's teens. They felt like kids back in the 50's to me.Naive, willing students, deferential to the adults. While there was some interesting tension between Rowland, a creative writing teacher, and Chris, his star pupil, it wasn't enough to carry the story.
The bookshelves constitute the review. Though I paid only $2.98 for this smug little nugget of crap, I'm tempted to sue the estate of Muriel Spark just on principle. The characters don't even rise to the level of caricature; they are stick figures that Dame Muriel pushes around her chessboard for a while. Until she can't be bothered anymore. The mystery is why she bothered at all. Surely she didn't need the money, and why would she choose to have this piece of mincingly clever dreck be her last
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