Possession: A Romance

Author(s): A.S. Byatt

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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.

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Winner of the Booker Prize

Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1990.

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 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 You turn its last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it. 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 that starts with an old book in a London library and ends on a storm-wracked night in a churchyard before an open grave. Washington Post 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

A. S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story writer and critic. 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. Her most recent novel is A Whistling Woman, the conclusion of the famous 'Frederica' quartet.

General Fields

  • : 9780099800408
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.35
  • : December 1991
  • : 199mm X 131mm X 33mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2023
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : A.S. Byatt
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : good - very good
  • : 528
  • : illustrations