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Possession - A Romance
A S Byatt
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Description for Possession - A Romance
Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099800408
SKU
V9780099800408
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Ref
99-99
About A S Byatt
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Possession - A Romance
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 mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had ... Read more
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 mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had ... Read more