Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel
A deeply intelligent, captivating and passionate work that reminds us of everything a literary biography can and should be ... Wilson has the utmost respect for Spark, but more important for a biographer, she has fervent curiosity about her ... Who was the real Muriel Spark? We may never know, and that’s the joy and delight of this book.
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Wilson revels in her sublimely contrary subject ... Wilson...feels free to focus on the parts of Spark’s life that informed her art—and luckily for us, these are plentiful, both because Spark liked to rework her own experiences and acquaintances for her fiction, and because her life tended toward the fantastical in ways that served her writing.
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A darting, innovative example of the form — perhaps more Ouija board than book ... Illuminates a weirder, more wayward writer than I ever grasped as an aspiring member of the Brodie set ... The biographer’s own surveillance is through a magnifying glass, and her book is a fire starter.
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