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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

    $3.27

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.27

  • Used

    Hardcover 1990

    $15.24

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    Paperback 2007

    $12.64
Synopsis

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant 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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Feb 1991
ISBN 10: 0099800403
ISBN 13: 9780099800408
Book Overview: This thrilling novel of romance, literary history, intrigue, poetry and high drama is a modern classic
 Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1990.

Media Reviews
A triumphant success on every level Cosmopolitan Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels Spectator 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. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated, happy to have had the chance to read it Washington Post Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them Sunday Times Our best novelist Evening Standard
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.