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Possession: A Romance
by A S Byatt

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Awards

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize
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For years I talked about Holden Caulfield and Rob Fleming as the only two characters in literature I ever identified with, the only two I ever read about and thought, "That is my life." Then I read Possession. Then I met Roland Michell. As I read the book, I devoured every word, trying to decide if Byatt was a masterful author, an insightful literary critic, or a brilliant poet, and in the end deciding on all three. I flew through the book, knowing I would have to complete it before the movie was released, only to find myself absolutely compelled to turn every page. This is the first book of the year that kept drawing me back since Kavalier and Clay. Then I hit the last fifty pages.

What Roland goes through in the last fifty pages, the choices he is forced to make with his life, where to go, how to proceed, these were indeed the self-same choices I had been facing for the last two years. At that point it was no longer just a brilliant book; it was speaking to me in a way only Catcher in the Rye and High Fidelity had spoken to me before. Perhaps it will not speak to you as it spoke to me, but perhaps it will, for this is a powerful, masterfully written book, and believe me, it does speak.
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An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
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About the Author

A. S. Byatt is the author of The Biographer's Tale, Elementals, and the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, among other books. She lives in London.
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Christiana, April 13, 2007 (view all comments by Christiana)
Wow, what book. What struck me is that the author created the people from scratch including the Victorian era as well.

A very interesting facet to the book, beyond the themes of love, romance, identity, and so on, is the idea of what can historians or biographers really know about someone from the past? No matter how much written material they may have gathered about that person there will still be things that are never known.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679735908
Subtitle:
A Romance
Author:
Byatt, A. S.
Author:
BYATT, A.S.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Collectors and collecting
Subject:
England
Subject:
Romance
Subject:
Romance - General
Subject:
Movie-TV Tie-In
Subject:
Poets
Subject:
Manuscripts
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Poets, English
Subject:
Literary historians
Subject:
Poets, English -- Fiction.
Copyright:
1990
Edition Description:
Vintage Intl
Series Volume:
no. 683
Publication Date:
October 1991
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
576
Dimensions:
8.06x5.22x1.06 in. 1.00 lbs.
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