Description: This lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel is set at a vaguely disreputable finishing school run by a sometimes writer and his wife. Into his creative writing class comes a literary prodigy, and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction begins.
Review Quotes: "An empress of literary sleight of hand. . . . What grace and beauty she's still displaying during the golden days and starlit nights of her absolutely marvelous career." -The Washington Post"Ingeniously comic. . . . Spark has packed a multitude of twists and turns into this relatively brief novel, and the action skims along merrily from one surprising revelation to the next." -Los Angeles Times Book Review"The Finishing School has all the ingredients of her best-known fiction." -The New York Times"Delicious. . . . A deft new comic novel. . . . Spark remains a master of quick-stroke portraiture and trenchant moral investigation." -The Seattle Times"A youthful academic comedy. . . . Her style . . . remains as sharp, even shocking, as it's always been." -The New York Times Book Review