The finishing school
By: Muriel Spark.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Fiction; Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction; Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Lausanne (Switzerland) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction."--BOOK JACKET.