Possession A S Byatt

Name: Possession By A S Byatt
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Possession by A S Byatt

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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. 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.

Possession Summary

Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt

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.

Possession Reviews

As 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 *

About A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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NGR9780099503927

ISBN 13

9780099503927

ISBN 10

0099503921

Title

Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt

Author

A S Byatt

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20070802

Number of pages

624

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