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32%OFFA S Byatt - Memory - 9780099470137 - V9780099470137
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Memory

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Description for Memory Paperback. Presents an anthology that introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. This book features a selection of extracts from writers and thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 568.

This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - from 'Memory and Evolution' by Patrick Bateson to 'Memory and Forgetting' by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain by Steven Rose.

Complementing the essays are a rich selection of extracts from writers and thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating, provocative, funny or profoundly moving, Memory is a book to treasure - and remember.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099470137
SKU
V9780099470137
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-25

About A S Byatt
Harriet Harvey Wood is the former Head of Literature at the British Council. A.S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story-writer and critic. Her books include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

Reviews for Memory
A book for the magpies among us, designed to be dipped in to time after time ... absorbing anthology
Sunday Herald
The appeal of this scholarly and thoughtful anthology is that it juxtaposes glancing insights with painstaking research... the two introductions... display something of the combined tastes and talents that have gone into this fascinating compilation
Penelope Lively
Financial Times
Rich and thought-provoking... What is appealing about this anthology (and I write as someone who on the whole dislikes them) is that it not only gives examples of the myriad responses that memory evokes but it offers theories that try to account for it
The Times
A fascinating and topical encyclopaedia on a little understood subject... a forensic strike at the quivering fragility of what and how we remember
Big Issue
Engaging...constantly surprising
Scotland on Sunday

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