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Possession: A Romance

Autor A. S. Byatt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1991

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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 seances 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."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780679735908
ISBN-10: 0679735909
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 133 x 205 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Vintage Intl.
Editura: Vintage Books USA
Locul publicării:New York, NY

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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 seances 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.

Recenzii

"Gorgeously written ... dazzling ... a tour de force." --"The New York Times Book Review
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"What a book! This is a novel for every taste.... An altogether magical performance." --"The Washington Post Book World"
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""A masterpiece of wordplay and adventure, a novel that compares with Stendhal and Joyce." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"A genuine winner ... original and unforgettable." --"Time

""The most dazzling novel of the year." --"USA Today"

Notă biografică

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.

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