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A.S. Byatt Possession
Vintage Books ISBELL 0099800403 / 9780099800408 Paperback Very Good
0099800403 Amazon.co.uk Review ""Literary critics make natural detectives"", says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dus ty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte , a lesser- known ""fairy poetess"" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland a nd Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research , but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their in volvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pul ls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic ass umptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear thro ughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female , of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and un forgettable tale of love and intrigue. --Lisa Whipple Times Literary Supplement 'intelligent, ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' --This text refers t
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