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The Driver's Seat (New Directions Paperbook) by Muriel Spark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Driver’s Seat , Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as “her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.” Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination. ** From Library Journal Spark's 1970 novel of a woman gone mad was dubbed "so stark as to be nightmarish" by The New Yorker. The story details the last day of protagonist Lise, who, while on holiday in Europe, is about to be murdered. For all fiction collections. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author The writer of “some of the best sentences in English” (The New Yorker), Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, and The Driver’s Seat. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.
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- Author
- Muriel Spark
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811221368
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (369 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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