Electric Spark - Wilson, Frances
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From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark.

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Produktbeschreibung
From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark.
Autorenporträt
Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and the author of six works of non-fiction, including 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 longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize; and Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence, which won the Plutarch Award, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Award and was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
Rezensionen
Wilson is not any old biographer. Her books are intense, eclectic and wildly diversionary, her intelligence rising from their pages like steam – and in Spark, the cleverest and the weirdest of them all, she may have found her ultimate subject. It's certainly delicious the way she casts shade on some of those who came before her . . . Her achievement in Electric Spark, a brilliant book by any standards, isn't to explain the writer (this is impossible, and she knows it), but to be somehow carried along in her slipstream. There is an uncanny closeness between biographer and subject at play here, and I find myself wondering whether Wilson didn't feel at times as if her manuscript wasn't a form of automatic writing