Reality and Dreams (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Tom Richards, Claire, Marigold, Cora, Rose Woodstock, Jeanne, Dave
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Perception, Friendship, Poverty or poor people, Reality, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Adultery, Work or workers, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Wealth
- Locales: England
Muriel Spark’s twentieth novel opens as Tom Richards regains consciousness in a hospital where he is recovering from a nearly fatal fall from a crane he was using while directing a film provisionally entitled The Hamburger Girl. The central idea of the film is that a rich man is so struck by a young woman frying hamburgers at a campsite in France that he anonymously bestows a fortune on her and then watches how she copes with her wealth. The plot is pure fantasy, but as the novel progresses readers are shown again and again how fantasy and reality blur and become indistinct,...
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