Possession din A S Byatt
A Romance

Categorie: Bücher
Pagini / Format: 624 S
Anul apariţiei: 2024
Editura: Random House UKVintage Classics
Limba: Englisch
ISBN: 9781784879990

[AS Byatt's] exhilarating genius came into its own withPossessionGuardian Harriet Harvey Wood,

A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic.<br><br>A pair of young scholars investigate 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.Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.<br><br>'Exhilarating genius'Guardian<br><br>'Possessionis eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them'Sunday Times<br><br>**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**<br><br>VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

1GBA.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels includePossession(winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet andThe 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.

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