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The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark
This is a wonderful book, but will probably be far from what you're expecting. I'm not going to write one of those deeply literary perfect essays that seem to constitute many other reviews of this book, that won't tell you anything other Han how smart and 'well read' I think I am (!).
My first recommendation, the book is short, read it from start to finish. You'd lose so much of the poetry and ambience if you broke off half way.
Lise is extremely unlikeable, I fell out with her somewhere on page three. But you don't need to like her to enjoy the book.
I say book, not story, because it isn't a typical story. The authors describes why events happen, not how. As the 'story' progresses the sense of unease builds and you feel the sense of losing control, small details become suspicions and Lise ever more predictable.
I'll read it a second time for sure.
My first recommendation, the book is short, read it from start to finish. You'd lose so much of the poetry and ambience if you broke off half way.
Lise is extremely unlikeable, I fell out with her somewhere on page three. But you don't need to like her to enjoy the book.
I say book, not story, because it isn't a typical story. The authors describes why events happen, not how. As the 'story' progresses the sense of unease builds and you feel the sense of losing control, small details become suspicions and Lise ever more predictable.
I'll read it a second time for sure.