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Possession: A Romance

Possession: A Romance

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

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    Paperback 1991

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Synopsis

"Literary critics make natural detectives", says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers. Booker Prize, 1990. Film stars Gwynneth Paltrow.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0099503921
ISBN 13: 9780099503927
Book Overview: Winner of the Booker Prize

Media Reviews
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 *
A combination of intellectual fireworks and magnetic readability * Guardian *
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.