Megan Abbott's latest novel is
Dare Me.
Dare Me was named: One of
Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2012, one of
Salon's Ultimate Book Guide Choices for 2012, one of The Millions's Best Books of 2012, and NBC's
The Today Show's Holiday Book Picks: Gillian Flynn's selection.
One of Abbott's five most dangerous mentors in fiction, as told to
The Daily Beast:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” For any writer tackling the theme of dangerous mentors, it begins with Spark’s novel, and so it was for me. For the six pupils under the tutelage of the seductive, witty and poisonous Miss Brodie in 1930s Edinburgh, the risks extend well beyond the classroom, culminating in disillusionment and ultimately betrayal for some and far worse for her most devoted disciple, the lamentable Mary Macgregor. But Miss Brodie’s hold on her power is hard to shake. “If the authorities wanted to get rid of her,” Spark’s narrator tells us, “she would have to be assassinated.”
Read about
the other books on Abbott's list.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is among
the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on teaching and learning and
Ian Rankin's six best books. Miss Jean Brodie is one of
John Mullan's ten best teachers in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
Dare Me was named: One of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2012, one of Salon's Ultimate Book Guide Choices for 2012, one of The Millions's Best Books of 2012, and NBC's The Today Show's Holiday Book Picks: Gillian Flynn's selection.
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