Summary
Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover.
How can you describe a ‘whole life’? Booker Prize-winner A. S. Byatt conjures a sparking, colour-filled novel about one man’s attempt to do so.
Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student, decides to immerse himself in the messiness of ‘real life’ by writing a biography of a great biographer. But a ‘whole life’ is hard to find. Everywhere he looks he discovers only fragments - strange notes, boxes of marbles, undated pos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283935 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009928393X |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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“This novel takes the reader somewhere rare and high” Financial Times “A voluptuous tale” Sunday Times “Awesome” Daily Mail “The relation of language to things, the arrangement of those things in the world, and exposure of the tricks of literary composition are not just occasional intruders in this novel, they are its very subject” Times Literary Review
About The Author
A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was 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.
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