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Two modern-day academics uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets in A.S. Byatt’s gloriously exhilarating novel of wit and romance."(I)ts manifest intelligence, subtle humour and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession an original, and unforgettable, contribution. " - Paul Gray, TimeMaud Bailey is a scholar researching the life and work of her distant relative, a little-known 19th-century poet named Christabel LaMotte. Roland Mitchell is looking into an obscure moment in the life of another Victorian poet, the celebrated Randolph Henry Ash. Together, the two uncover a dark secret in Ash’s life: though apparently happily married, he conducted a torrid affair with LaMotte. As Maud and Roland dig deeper, they too find themselves falling in love."Possession is most of all about speech, language, the pleasure of reading, the singularity of reading. (...) ...Possession accomplishes its essential purpose. It makes one read and reflect on language and consider what it meant to another age." - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesA.S. Byatt won the Booker Prize in 1990 with Possession and was shortlisted in 2009 with The Children’s B

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Author

A S Byatt; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679735908

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Mystery