Imagining Characters
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Imagining Characters by A S Byatt
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in the ways literature grips its readers and, at times, transforms their lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.A.S.Byatt is a novelist, short story writer, and critic who has received international renown. Possession, which won the Booker Prize, as well as The Children's Book and The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman, are among her works. In 1999, she was made a Dame of the British Empire, and she has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She currently resides in London, England.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679777533 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679777539 |
| Title | Imagining Characters |
| Author | A S Byatt |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1997-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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