Possession - A Romance (Paperback, Reissue)

Booker Prize Winner 1990. When the love letters of Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte, Victorian poets, are discovered, rival academics Maud Bailey and Roland Mitchell combine forces to solve the mystery of their parting, in the process uncovering an even greater enigma. Possession benefits from Byatt's abiding interest in Victorian poetry - she has, for example, edited collections of Robert Browning - and the pastiches of poetry and letters which she creates for the blighted lovers, and uses to propel their narrative, are of an unparalleled fluency and plausibility. Mitchell and Bailey's own story echoes the melodrama and excitement of Ash and LaMotte's, mimicking the scope of a Victorian novel. The novel's popularity with critics and a wider public is justified: it is deeply researched, and the fruits of that knowledge of Victorian literature and mores are made accessible to the general reader, and both sets of narratives are utterly gripping. (Kirkus UK)

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1991
Authors:	A.S. Byatt
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	511
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-980040-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > General
LSN:	0-09-980040-3
Barcode:	9780099800408

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