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Electric Spark the enigma of Dame Muriel

"Award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, the most consummate artist of the twentieth century"--

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Main Author:	Wilson, Frances, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Spark, Muriel. Women authors, Scottish > 20th century > Biography. Novelists, Scottish > 20th century > Biography. Biographies.
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Summary:	"Award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, the most consummate artist of the twentieth century"--
Item Description:	"Originally published in 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Great Britain as Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark"--Colophon.
Physical Description:	pages ; cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780374613204
Author Notes:	Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, including How to Survive the Titanic; or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay , which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize; and Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence , which won the Plutarch Award, was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Award, and was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize.