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In this first book I'm reading in preparation for a trip to Edinburgh later this year, Muriel Spark delivers dry Scottish humor, ruminations on Calvinism, and one of the great charismatic and manipulative teachers in fiction.
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Spark's novel is witty, critical, and cynical in all the best ways.
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