robinson

Robinson by Muriel Spark (Macmillan & Company, 1961)

I found this hardcover edition of an early Spark novel I had never heard of at the Owl Pen bookstore in Greenwich NY earlier this summer. It’s very slight and negligible, but there are a few moments of wit. The setting, a remote and (almost) uninhabited island in the Azores onto which a plane crashes leaving three survivors (2 men and a woman) to be rescued by the island’s two inhabitants (a solitary man and his adopted son) is fun, but the plot, which involves a murder, is second-rate and the book offers little delight or satisfaction. A curiosity — no wonder I had never heard of it.