Electric spark

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Short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Long-listed for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

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 weird accidents, strange coincidences, and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as “Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes.” By following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography, and archives, Frances Wilson aims to crack her code.

Electric Spark explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers. It takes us through her early years, when turmoil reigned: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skullduggery, blackmail, love affairs, revenge, and a major religious conversion. If this sounds like a novel by Spark, it is because her experiences in the 1940s and 1950s became, alchemically distilled, the material of her art.

“As good a critic as she is a biographer [and] as sharp a stylist as she is a reader” (The Boston Globe), in Electric Spark Frances Wilson brings her enormous, incandescent powers to bear on one of the most formidable writers of the twentieth century.

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Electric Spark

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From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating landmark new look at muriel spark a book of the year for the times sunday times guardian telegraph tls financial times economist new statesman london standard and washington post absolutely mesmerising i was possessed b Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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A book of the year for the times sunday times guardian telegraph tls financial times economist new statesman london standard and washington post absolutely mesmerising i was possessed by this book in the same way that i suspect its author was possessed by spark it still hasn t put me down Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Uitvoering: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 september 2025

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Hoofdauteur: Frances Wilson

Hoofduitgeverij: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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