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Byatt, as usual, creates a whole world of fully developed characters. Though they are at odds with each other, the reader comes to love them all. But the most astonishing feature of the book is the writer's tour de force in producing so many different voices and writing styles, letters, poetry and prose, ostensibly written by the various characters in the book. By the end, you want to read the books that are excerpted, but, darn! they aren't real...Luckily, it sounds like Ragnarok, her next tome, might be one of them. Can't wait!
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Byatt is amazing. She has not only created unforgettable modern-day characters in her deft satire of academia, she has created writings in the voices of two fictional eminent Victorians. Each of story's many layers has a unique flavor, and their mingling results in a most delectable concoction.
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Layers of discovery, the book reads like poetry in many ways. It is my all time favorite book.
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Myra Donnelley
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This stunning (and satirically hilarious) tour de force about writers, writing, romance, mysteries and literary scholarship/skullduggery left me bereft when I finished it - I wanted to read it again and again and again and have each time be the very first, fresh reading of virgin text! Byatt is an amazing writer and great satirist of lit.crit./academia (it did not hurt that I had just finished a one-year's M. Phil program at Trinity in Dublin when I read it...). Whatever you do, read the book - do NOT see the idiotic movie they made with the same title and a few (of the more boring) elements of the plot! A book for bibliophiles, writers, poets, romantics and cynics, alike, to treasure.
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I loved this book. The love story told through letters kept me reading, and I loved the unfolding mystery as more letters were uncovered.
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A beautifully written literary novel, mystery and romance with a historical subplot. Masterfully done.
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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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ISBN:
9780679735908
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/01/1991
Publisher:
Vintage
Series info:
Vintage International
Pages:
576
Height:
1.06IN
Width:
5.22IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
15
Copyright Year:
1990
Series Volume:
no. 683
UPC Code:
2800679735900
Author:
A S Byatt
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As Byatt
Author:
A. S. Byatt
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Poets, English -- Fiction.
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Poets, English
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Literature-A to Z
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Poets
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Romance
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England Fiction.
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England
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