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The Driver's Seat

The Driver's Seat

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25 OCT 2021

Alex Freedman

The Monday Media Diet with Alex Freedman

This novel by Muriel Spark details a woman hunting for a man whose task is not to be her lover, but her murderer, speaking volumes to the complexity of women’s sexual liberation post-#metoo.

The Driver’s Seat, Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as “her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.” Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday ― in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.

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