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Possession: A Romance
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Possession: A Romance
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) A S Byatt
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:624 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780099503927
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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| Imprint |
Vintage Classics
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| Publication Date |
2 August 2007 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Winner of the Booker Prize The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Author Biography
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the Frederica Quartet; The Children's Book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999 and is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing'.
ReviewsAs always, Byatt wields beautiful prose, and the mix of prose and poetry gives the book a sensuality as mysterious as anything in the plot Intelligent, ingenious and humane * Times Literary Supplement * A combination of intellectual fireworks and magnetic readability * Guardian *
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