A. S. Byatt
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Possession -- A. S. Byatt, Paperback
National Bestseller
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist s ances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. 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.
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780679735908
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist s ances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. 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.
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780679735908
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
About the Author
A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game, and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.