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Vintage The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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Vintage Babel Tower
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Garnder's UK A Whistling Woman
With <I>A Whistling Woman</I>, AS Byatt reaches the fourth and final instalment in her popular sequence of novels, after <I>The Virgin in the Garden</I>, <I>Still Life</I> and <I>Babel Tower</I>. It is now the summer of 1968. Newly divorced Frederica is living with Agatha and their children while pursuing a somewhat desultory affair with John Ottakar. But everything changes when John accepts a post at the University of North Yorkshire, while Frederica stumbles into a new career on television … <I>A Whistling Woman</I> is a busy, energetic novel, juggling its various plot strands--experimental scientists, psychiatric patients with nasty secrets, the upper echelons of university life--with the slick skill of a TV soap. Characters, familiar and new, are evoked with Byatt's customary easy vividness, but this time the exuberance is tempered by a noticeable sourness. One gets the distinct sense throughout the novel that by 1968 British society as we know it has started to spiral downhill. For Frederica, whereas the carpet of the 50s was woven of many colours, in fine threads, the sixties were like a fishing-net woven horribly loose and slack with only the odd very bright plastic object caught in its meshes, whilst everything else had rushed and flowed through, back into the undifferentiated ocean. Echoing Frederica's disillusion, Byatt's satire is more than usually acerbic towards various targets--in particular in her account of the newly politicised academy (which seems more a parody of 80s political correctness than of 60s activism). But for those dying to know what life brings to Frederica, then <I>A Whistling Woman</I> will be a welcome end to the years of waiting.--<I>Alan Stewart</I>
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Vintage Sugar and Other Stories
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Vintage The Virgin in the Garden
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Vintage Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
Byatt's stories simmer with a sensuality and passion which, like topiarian trees in a formal garden, are pruned and trained into cultivated shapes whilst retaining the wild scent of the orchard. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away from a personal tragedy, deserting those she loves to try and reconcile herself to a death for which she feels horribly responsible. Thrown together in Nîmes with another exiled mourner, a Norwegian full of northern folktales, she ricochets between a numbed calm and a reckless urge for self-destruction. Together they begin to assemble some kind of personal solace out of fragments of European history, fiction and myth, and so come to terms with their guilt. A Lamia in the Cevennes is also set in France, where another isolated English exile struggles for self-knowledge amid the shards of history and folktale. Cold is itself a kind of latter-day fairy story of ice princesses and sighing suitors. These are stories steeped in light and colour, full of glowing landscapes and sensuous delights. Their intricately woven skeins of literary allusion and keenly observed locations bewitch the reader. Yet the figures in Byatt's landscapes seem powerless to derive pleasure or solace from their surroundings, picking their lonely way through the brilliance, carrying with them burdens of painful memories they cannot shake off. --<I>Lisa Jardine</I>
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Vintage On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
A.S. Byatt is that wonderful figure, a creative writer who is also equally at home in the seminar room, having taught at the University of London for many years, before winning the Booker Prize for her novel <I>Possession</I> in 1990. In <I>On Histories and Stories</I> she pursues one of her most recent interests, developed in her novel <I>The Biographer's Tale</I>, of the sense of a new possibility of narrative energy in what Byatt see as the sudden flowering of the historical novel in Britain in the last 50 years, in the work of Anthony Burgess, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Golding, Muriel Spark and Lawrence Norfolk. The seven essays that constitute this collection attempt to explain this fascination with history, ranging from the recent attraction of the Second World War in novels like Julian Barnes' <I>Staring at the Sun</I> and Martin Amis' <I>Time's Arrow</I>, via the evocation of distant pasts in recent novels, and the use of precise scholarship in historical fiction, to a marvellous concluding chapter on the <I>Thousand and One Nights</I>. Byatt argues that telling stories is as much part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood, and that it consoles us for endings with endless new beginnings that defy death. <I>On Histories and Stories</I> is a formidably intelligent defence of storytelling, and rejection of high modernism; it is neither to be taken, nor read, lightly. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Vintage Possession: A Romance
Literary critics make natural detectives, says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty 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 and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion. <p> Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, <I>Possession</I> 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 throughout 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 unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --<I>Lisa Whipple</I>
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Vintage The Frederica Quartet
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Vintage Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers
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Vintage Portraits in Fiction
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Vintage Possession: A Romance
Literary critics make natural detectives, says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty 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 and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long- forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion. <p> Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, <I>Possession</I> 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 throughout 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 unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --<I>Lisa Whipple</I>
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Vintage The Game
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Vintage Angels and Insects
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Vintage A Whistling Woman
With <I>A Whistling Woman</I>, AS Byatt reaches the fourth and final instalment in her popular sequence of novels, after <I>The Virgin in the Garden</I>, <I>Still Life</I> and <I>Babel Tower</I>. It is now the summer of 1968. Newly divorced Frederica is living with Agatha and their children while pursuing a somewhat desultory affair with John Ottakar. But everything changes when John accepts a post at the University of North Yorkshire, while Frederica stumbles into a new career on television … <I>A Whistling Woman</I> is a busy, energetic novel, juggling its various plot strands--experimental scientists, psychiatric patients with nasty secrets, the upper echelons of university life--with the slick skill of a TV soap. Characters, familiar and new, are evoked with Byatt's customary easy vividness, but this time the exuberance is tempered by a noticeable sourness. One gets the distinct sense throughout the novel that by 1968 British society as we know it has started to spiral downhill. For Frederica, whereas the carpet of the 50s was woven of many colours, in fine threads, the sixties were like a fishing-net woven horribly loose and slack with only the odd very bright plastic object caught in its meshes, whilst everything else had rushed and flowed through, back into the undifferentiated ocean. Echoing Frederica's disillusion, Byatt's satire is more than usually acerbic towards various targets--in particular in her account of the newly politicised academy (which seems more a parody of 80s political correctness than of 60s activism). But for those dying to know what life brings to Frederica, then <I>A Whistling Woman</I> will be a welcome end to the years of waiting.--<I>Alan Stewart</I>
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Vintage The Little Black Book of Stories
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BBC Books The Blue Planet
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Vintage Still Life
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Vintage Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time
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Chatto and Windus The Little Black Book of Stories
Pages: 292, Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Vintage The Matisse Stories
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Vintage Degrees of Freedom: Early Novels of Iris Murdoch
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Vintage The Biographer's Tale
The world of erstwhile post-structuralist literary critic Phineas G Nanson turns upside down when he abandons the abstractions of theory and embarks upon a factual voyage into the realms of biographical empiricism. Dryly inspired by one of his tutors, the indigent and orotund Ormerod Goode, Phineas starts writing a biography of Scholes Destry Scholes--a biographer. Hooked by Scholes's scholarly multi-volumed biography of Victorian polymath Sir Elmer Bole, Phineas enters the mysterious world of the biographical form, a despised art because it is an art of things, of facts, of arranged facts. Phineas discovers that facts, when piecing together the story of a life, are not only elusive and inconclusive, but liable to turn out to be fiction. <p><I>The Biographer's Tale</I> is about how a would-be biographer goes in pursuit of his subject, and inadvertently finds himself along the way. A dry, nervous cipher at the outset, Phineas develops into a character as the tale progresses. He goes from loneliness to double love with a taxonomist and a radiologist. The earthy Fulla, a Scandanavian nature-goddess inducts him into the sensual exterior of life and the organic links that hold it together. Obsessed with bees and beetles, Fulla shows Phineas how human life is dependent upon a fragile ecosystem that philosophers of the self rarely pause to consider in their flights into the existential nature of being. Radiologist Vera who photographs our invisible lives reveals to Phineas the usually invisible world of the inner body, and enables him to venture to the interior of himself.<p>Entranced with two women, admiring and envious of the love between his peripatetic gay employers and terrified of one of their most important clients, Phineas finds that his biographical subject leads him into the words and worlds of Darwin, Galton, Linnaeus, Ibsen and Pearson. Byatt's theme is, typically, both labyrinthine in its complexity and crystalline in its simplicity. In its complexity, <I>The Biographer's Tale</I> is an investigation into contemporary intellectual currents and their relation to the philosophical and natural truths of nineteenth century thought. In its simplicity, it is a book about how we tell ourselves stories.<p>This is a novel that pokes fun at the solipsistic excesses of over-serious academe. It is nonetheless scholarly in its own construction, and readers should expect a challenging read. Byatt's particular achievement is to embody the positions of contemporary intellectual thought and make them into characters too. Empiricism becomes a phlegmatic, generally reliable but poseur-like armchair traveller whose failing is to elide cracks and conceal discontinuities in reality. Post-structuralism becomes a pugnacious sceptic querying the premise of selfhood with a weakness for revelling in ambivalence and the shiny surfaces of things--and delightfully annoying in its persistent questioning of the order of everything.<p>Truth, lies, love, history, self-knowledge--Byatt enables the reader to choose their route through Phineas's <I>Bildungsroman</I&g t;. Pitching headlong into a very topical British cultural obsession with the nature of biography, <I>The Biographer's Tale</I> walks lightly the knotty tightrope between fact and fiction, and leaves the reader to decide on what is the difference between the two. As Phineas discovers, There are very few human truths and infinite variations on them...Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, gut giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we discover. --<I>Rachel Holmes</I>
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Vintage The Shadow of the Sun: A Novel
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Chatto and Windus The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
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Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S. A.S. Byatt
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc,US Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt (Studies on Themes & Motifs in Literature)
Pages: 213, Hardcover, Peter Lang Publishing Inc,US
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Laurier (Wilfrid) University Press S Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination
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