Possession - (Vintage International) by A S Byatt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>National Bestseller <br></b> <br>Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, <b>Possession</b> 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 séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Gorgeously written ... dazzling ... a tour de force." --<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>"What a book! This is a novel for every taste.... An altogether magical performance." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br><i><br></i>"A masterpiece of wordplay and adventure, a novel that compares with Stendhal and Joyce." --<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>"A genuine winner ... original and unforgettable." --<i>Time <p/></i>"The most dazzling novel of the year." --<i>USA Today</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels <b>Possession</b> (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), <b>The Game</b>, and the sequence <b>The Virgin in the Garden</b><i>, </i><b>Still Life</b>, and <b>Babel Tower</b>. She has also written two novellas, published together as <b>Angels and Insects</b>, and four collections of shorter works, including <b>The Matisse Stories</b> and <b>The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye</b>. 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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