Still Life (The Frederica Potter Novels)

Still Life (The Frederica Potter Novels)

by A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author)

Synopsis

Frederica Potter, 'doomed to be intelligent', plunges into Cambridge University life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to make a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central leitmotiv. In this sequel to her much praised The Virgin in the Garden, and the second in a magnificent quartet, A. S. Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfillment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of the intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: 1st Vintage Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 18 May 1995

ISBN 10: 0099479915
ISBN 13: 9780099479918
Book Overview: 'A major novel - a marvellous and most unusual work' Iris Murdoch

Media Reviews
Marvellous... A major novel, inspiring laughter and tears -- Iris Murdoch
Glorious... Frederica is a magnificent creation; awkward, fierce, intellectually voracious and sexually inexperienced -- Francesca Segal, author of The Awkward Age
Affords enormous and continuous pleasure -- Anita Brookner
Byatt is a wonderful writer, constantly engaging wherever she takes us * The Times *
Author Bio
A.S. Byatt is 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.