Possession
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Possession by A S Byatt
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. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
A triumphant success on every level * Cosmopolitan *
Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels * Spectator *
This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story, a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life, and an unputdownable supernatural mysteryYou turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it * Washington Post *
Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them * Sunday Times *
Our best novelist * Evening Standard *
Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels * Spectator *
This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story, a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life, and an unputdownable supernatural mysteryYou turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it * Washington Post *
Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them * Sunday Times *
Our best novelist * Evening Standard *
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was 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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| ISBN 13 | 9780099800408 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099800403 |
| Title | Possession |
| Author | A S Byatt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1991-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize 1990 |
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