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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays her keen instinct for hypocrisy, self-delusion, and moral ambiguity.
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"Wittily recalls Spark's best-known work, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie...Sparks so brilliantly captures extreme states of mind-paranoia, hysteria, neurosis, psychosis-because she organizes her chaotic and centrifugal subject matter through tightly structured plots and luminously precise language."
Times Literary Supplement (London)
"No discussion of plot or character can do justice to the quality of a Sparknovel. Her genius lies in her tone…This short novel is an eloquent, subtle, poetic exploration of what words are and what they do to us."
Times (London)
"[Spark has] the most sharply original fictional imagination of our time…Starting her career as a poet, [she] in many ways remains one-not least in her deftness at finding images in unexpected places."
Sunday Times (London)