false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170709256m/69515.jpg 69515 11 From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved <b>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.</b><br><br>College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, 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 Rowland&#8217;s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual. 67357 2004 The Finishing School total:170|5:16|4:48|3:70|2:28|1:8| 170 546 234 31 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:27:14 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:27:14 -0800 2009 Spark, 86, has had a long and distinguished career—remember The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)? The Finishing School proves she's still up to task. "I'm in full control," Chris tells Rowland. "Nobody in my book so far could cross the road unless I make them do it." The same c...

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