The Shadow of the Sun: A Novel: xvi

The Shadow of the Sun: A Novel: xvi

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

Synopsis

First published in 1964 The Shadow of the Sun is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. In the introduction to this edition the 1990 Booker Prize winning author looks back at the novel's genesis, and the problems she faced as a woman writing her first novel.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 17 Oct 1991

ISBN 10: 0099889609
ISBN 13: 9780099889601
Book Overview: This moving story of a young woman's struggle with her own identity was the first novel to be written by A.S. Byatt, now celebrated as one of the finest contemporary writers in the English language and author of the bestseller Possession.

Media Reviews
A.S.Byatt's first novel, written in her early twenties, is simultaneously a rehearsal of the themes of her later fiction and a major work in its own right. Her concern with precise nuances of thought and feeling and their representation in prose is almost unparalleled in contemporary writing. The Shadow of the Sun is a tremendous achievement -- DJ Taylor In her very first novel, The Shadow of the Sun, A.S. Byatt showed herself to be that rarity, and English writer unafraid of the novel of ideas. Yet she is also the most sensuous of novelists - fictions made flesh are her passion -- Christopher Hope 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.