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Possession: a Romance (UK Edition)

by A.s. Byatt

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Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being and a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights, A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her a novelist of dazzling inventiveness.

Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possession--the lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subject--she is profound, said The Sunday Times (London). The New Yorker dubbed it more fun to read than The Name of the Rose . . . Its prankish verve and] monstrous richness of detail make for] a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types. The novel traces a pair of young academics--Roland Michell and Maud Bailey--as they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fairytales, extracts from biographies and scholarly accounts, creating a sensuous and utterly delightful novel of ideas and passions.

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Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt.

About the Author

A. S. Byatt is famed for her short fiction, collected in Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Her full-length novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession and the trilogy sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower.

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Krista Smith-Moroziuk, July 20, 2009 (view all comments by Krista Smith-Moroziuk)
I love A.S. Byatt's writing, and this is my favorite book of hers. It is a masterpiece of storytelling. The characters and the places come to life. One of my favorite books of all time.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780099800408
Author:
Byatt, A.s.
Publisher:
Random House
Binding:
MASS MARKET

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