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Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel

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Availability:In StockContributor:Frances WilsonPublish date:9/23/2025Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613204ISBN-10:374613206UPC:9780374613204Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women AuthorsSize:9.19 x 6.35 x 1.35 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC4AZ75ND3

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel

Long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.

"Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is," said Muriel Spark.

Muriel Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613204ISBN-10:374613206UPC:9780374613204Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women AuthorsSize:9.19 x 6.35 x 1.35 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC4AZ75ND3
Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of six works of nonfiction, including How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was long-listed for the...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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