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Possession: A Romance (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

Possession: A Romance (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

by A S Byatt (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating 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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 528
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 0099563134
ISBN 13: 9780099563136
Book Overview: A special celebratory edition to mark the 21st birthday of Vintage books.

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 Elizabeth Kostova 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
Author Bio
A.S. Byatt is internationally known as a novelist, short-story writer and critic. She has published nine novels, two novellas and four collections of stories, and co-edited Memory: An Anthology. A. S. Byatt was appointed CBE after Possession was awarded the Booker Prize in 1990, and DBE in 1999. Her most recent novel was The Children's Book.