Adam Ehrlich Sachs, who studied atmospheric science at Harvard, is the author of
Inherited Disorders. One of ten funny books he tagged at
Publishers Weekly:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Spark’s elliptical tale of a fascistic teacher (Mussolini, she informs her young students, has “performed feats of magnitude”) and her mostly devoted brood is never funnier than when it’s killing off the stupidest student, Mary MacGregor, in one of its hilariously abrupt, brutal glimpses into the distant future: “ ‘Sandy won’t talk to me,’ said Mary, who later, in that hotel fire, ran hither and thither till she died.”
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the other books on the list.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is among
Sebastian Faulks's six favorite books,
Stuart Husband's top ten fictional teachers,
Rachel Cooke's top ten spinsters,
Karin Altenberg's top ten books about betrayal,
Megan Abbott's five most dangerous mentors in fiction,
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
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