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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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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 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.
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 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
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
Elizabeth Kostova
Intelligent, ingenious and humane
Times Literary Supplement
Intelligent, literary, and ambitious...combines the drive of the thriller with the 19th-century novel, and throughout she threads the poetry and passion of ''romance''....races to a riotous final scene of storms and graveyards
The Times
Proves that a serious, intricate book can also be a page turner...manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession original and unforgettable
Time
Shimmers with something close to genius ... If I become famous enough to be the castaway on Desert Island Discs, this is the book I'd choose. It requires effort but, trust me, it is a modern masterpiece
Daily Mail
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 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
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
Elizabeth Kostova
Intelligent, ingenious and humane
Times Literary Supplement
Intelligent, literary, and ambitious...combines the drive of the thriller with the 19th-century novel, and throughout she threads the poetry and passion of ''romance''....races to a riotous final scene of storms and graveyards
The Times
Proves that a serious, intricate book can also be a page turner...manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession original and unforgettable
Time
Shimmers with something close to genius ... If I become famous enough to be the castaway on Desert Island Discs, this is the book I'd choose. It requires effort but, trust me, it is a modern masterpiece
Daily Mail