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The Finishing School

Muriel Spark

Paperback | Pages: 181 pages

Rating: 3.04 | 1268 Users | 208 Reviews

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Title	:	The Finishing School
Author	:	Muriel Spark
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 181 pages
Published	:	November 8th 2005 by Anchor (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Audiobook

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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.

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Original Title:	The Finishing School
ISBN:	1400077397 (ISBN13: 9781400077397)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Elba (2005)

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In this last rousing comedy by Spark, writ when she was 86, she confronts jealousy and hypocrisy with rapier-sharp results..."What is jealousy? I hate you because you have got what I have not got and desire." ~ "Is it difficult to be a hypocite?" The reply: "Not very much. We do it in civilized society the whole time." The arts of hypocrisy and the rampant issue of jealousy provide the backdrop at a free-wheeling school for rich teens in Switzerland where creativity -- and who controls the

Although a short book, it took me two days to read as I was not particularly drawn in by either the plot or the characters. While the novel was set in the present time, I did not feel like the author was able to recreate today's teens. They felt like kids back in the 50's to me.Naive, willing students, deferential to the adults. While there was some interesting tension between Rowland, a creative writing teacher, and Chris, his star pupil, it wasn't enough to carry the story.

Muriel Sparks last book. As the introduction says Muriel Sparks books may be short but, like a good dram, they have a long finish.The plot is set in Switzerland at a finishing school that is not really a school but a way for Nina and Rowland to make money in a fun way. They care little for the pupils but not in a nasty way and teach classes which have no rigor or reason. Rowland is trying also to write a novel but suffering writers block. Along comes 17 year old Chris who is writing an historic

I like Muriel Spark's quirky outlook and, after completing an earlier book, felt that "more was more" and the more I read the more I enjoyed her writing. But, this book set me off that course.Instead of finding the situation and characters off-beat in THE FINISHING SCHOOL, I found them unsettling. Although this is a short book, I allowed myself to set the book aside, rather than running right through it. Spark is no doubt very gifted at setting a mood, but the mood is precisely what put me off.

Rowland and Nina Mahler both run College Sunshine, a travelling finishing school for the young and wealthy. Richard, who is trying to finish (and start) his novel, becomes obsessed with Chris, a 17-year-old student, whose own vaguely historical novel is showing far more progress and has attracted the attention of publishers. Stuff happens, though not much. Muriel Spark's last novel, already quite slender, is also rather thin, story-wise, and even flatter, when it comes to characters. But the

This was kind of creepy and odd and I kind of liked it. It was written very objectively, in that there's almost zero emotion to be found in this book, despite it being about jealousy, loyalty and love. I liked Nina best of all (especially her lessons, which were fantastic), but felt that even though this was clearly set now, with all of the laptops and faxes, the characters felt like they belonged in the past - hippies, maybe? That could be part of the distance the reader has from all the

Although I like Muriel Spark, I found this one lacking. It was certainly the thinnest of her books I've read; the page margins seemed much larger than an inch. I found the plot--Rowland, medium-skanky teacher "trying" to finish his "novel", is stupefyingly jealous of his prolific student, Chris--to be underdeveloped and not very interesting. The additional characters--rich, stupid students, Rowland's wife Nina, and a selection of servants who seem to be there only to illustrate class