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gscull 's review for:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
What a peculiar and delightful little book! In the "about the book" afterward of my copy, James Wood puts it perfectly: "All of Muriel Spark's novels are fiercely composed and devoutly starved [...] we feel compelled to turn the mere crescents of her characters into round discs." There is so little interiority, just Sandy's projections of her thoughts on Miss Brodie's interior life, yet as a reader we can't help but fill in the blanks. And isn't that much of our relationships? We are all fiction makers.
Also, I will be introducing "there must be a leaven in the lump" and "forsooth" into my vocabulary.
Also, I will be introducing "there must be a leaven in the lump" and "forsooth" into my vocabulary.