Possession
A. S. Byatt$16.15
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National Bestseller
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist s ances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1991
ISBN: 9780679735908
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.06d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire--from spiritualist s ances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany--what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/01/1991
ISBN: 9780679735908
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 1.06d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/06/1991
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 102