Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel
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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Fitfully illuminating the novels ... It’s the wealth of down-to-earth detail assiduously amassed here that admirers of Muriel Spark will more likely relish.
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Pleasurable and interesting as this biography is, it feels as if it misses the point of the impersonal in Spark’s approach. Her own life is in there, for sure, but distilled into its purest form, which is to say a human comedy, where dark forces seem to triumph, unaware that they are being skewered by a sharp and all-seeing eye.
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