Muriel Spark’s novel The Driver’s Seat () utilizes the present tense, giving the story a sense of urgency even though there is very little action. Lise is shopping for a colorful dress to wear on a trip on which she is about to embark. The sales clerk informs her that the dress she is trying on is made with a special material that resists stains. The Driver's Seat is a weird, evasive story in which we are introduced to a chameleon-like protagonist named Lise. In an opening that is instantly unnerving, the first scene sees her raging at a shop assistant for daring to suggest she should buy a stain-proof dress - rather than seeing this as a positive, she loudly berates the girl for implying she would spill food on her clothes/5. · Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book. The Novels of Muriel Spark. Two Volume Set in Slipcase: the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/the Comforters/the Only Problem/the Driver's Seat/Memento Mori. Published by Houghton Mifflin,
In The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, she creates a story that portrays the main character, Lise as an independent woman, who orchestrates her own death. Although the death of a strong female can acts as a criteria of patriarchal influenced novels. Whilst The Prime of Jean Brodie is by a long way Muriel Spark's most famous book, it is another, lesser-known novel that could well be her masterpiece. The Driver's Seat, the story of a young woman who plots her own death at the hands of a convicted sex maniac, is the preferred Spark novel of many,. The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark Summary from Amazon: Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an introduction by John Lanchester in Penguin Modern Classics.
Muriel Spark (–) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in Author, Book review, Fiction, Italy, literary fiction, Muriel Spark, Penguin Modern Classics, Publisher, Setting ‘The Driver’s Seat’ by Muriel Spark Febru February 9, kimbofo. The driver's seat Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The driver's seat by Spark, Muriel. Publication date Topics Women, Murder Publisher.
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