Public Image

"...Mrs. Spark continues to sound deep waters....Throughout this parable, Mrs. Spark employs her sense of actions that, accumulating over years, are at last irresistibly telescoped into liberating calamity....[S]he heightens suspense not by withholding facts but by causing us to speculate as to their effects on her characters....The equivocal nature of public curiosity, and its infringements of private life, are depicted here in their subtlety and their brutality....In telling us this taut contemporary tale, Mrs. Spark displays all the directness and complexity of her art, and her poet's accuracy of thought and word. Here is a remarkable writer..."Spark, Muriel is the author of 'Public Image' with ISBN 9780811212465 and ISBN 0811212467.