The Finishing School

From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/08/2005
ISBN: 9781400077397
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 64
New Yorker (The) 04/05/2010 pg. 68

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 86491 / Finishing School
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 5