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

The Finishing School

Muriel Spark

Paperback | Pages: 181 pages

Rating: 3.04 | 1268 Users | 208 Reviews

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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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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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Perhaps the title was meant playfully, since this was Muriel Spark's last book, but it seems not she'd begun another book just before she died aged eighty eight. When I first heard about that unfinished book, and before I'd read many of her books, I thought what a pity that we'd never be able to read it. Now, having read a couple of the later books, I don't feel at all regretful. She had her Prime, and the books she gave us in her Prime are more than enough.

Little more than a short story really. And while short stories have a habit of driving me bananas, possibly because they tend to come in books containing one good yarn and ten substandard ones, I enjoyed this standalone one. It's about the symbiotic relationship between aspiring novelist Rowland, currently running a anachronistic kind of modern day co-educational finishing school, and his student Chris, an actually-getting-on-with-it novelist, with a cast of other odd characters getting in the

This was a quick read - short and sweet. I liked it enough but didn't love it. Set in a Finishing School, where well to do families send their children to absorb some culture and learn a little about the world before launching out into it. It is run by a young couple, Rowland and Nina, who have a small select group of students, amongst them Chris a 17 year old aspiring novelist. Chris's perceived success torments Rowland, who is struggling with his own writing. Neither can work with, nor



You begin, he said, by setting your scene. You have to see your scene, either in reality or in imagination. For instance, from here you can see across the lake. But on a day like this you cant see across the lake, its too misty. You cant see the other side. Rowland took off his reading glasses to stare at his creative writing class whose parents money was being thus spent: two boys and three girls around sixteen to seventeen years of age, some more, some a little less. So, he said, you must just

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 is shocking for me to admit but I forgot I had read this book previously. The plot was that boring. If I didn't have to read this for a friend's book club I would have probably just stopped and chosen another book. Instead I found an audiobook copy that was narrated by a narrator, Nadia May, I have had good experiences with previously. Let me start off this review by saying the writing in this novella isn't bad. Truth be told the writing is just fine, and it could have been a good book