The Driver's Seat
Author: Spark, Muriel
ISBN: 9780141188348
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 May 2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate.
ISBN: 9780141188348
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 May 2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate.
