A.S. Byatt
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| Title | : | Possession |
| Author | : | A.S. Byatt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 555 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1991 by Vintage (first published October 17th 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Classics. Mystery |
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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 séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)Describe Books In Favor Of Possession
| Original Title: | Possession |
| ISBN: | 0679735909 (ISBN13: 9780679735908) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Maud Bailey, Roland Michell, Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Mortimer Cropper, James Blackadder, Beatrice Nest, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover, Sabine de Kerkoz |
| Setting: | London, England Lincoln, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1990), Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1990), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (1991) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 67500 Users | 4173 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Possession
It took me three attempts to get this one right. Something about the premise drew me in from the get go. I was destined to love this book. No way around it. I was in for an unpleasant surprise. It didn't take long before I found myself bored to tears. The language was so outmoded. Everything about it was plain difficult. I put it aside for a couple months in the hopes that it would get easier. It was still the same. I was still the same.A couple years passed. It was always in the back of myLike many biographies... this was as much about its author as its subject.AS Byatt has characters describing biography as a form of religion a form of ancestor worship. She is a novelist who loves the academic approach to biography, applied to fiction and semi-fiction, creating po-mo metafiction that is rich in texture and research, but which can be a little hard for mortals to digest. There are two main timelines here: a pair of Victorian poets (Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte,
A while ago I said to myself, "I'm going to pay more attention to doing things that make me happy. So I'm going to cook more creatively and read more fantasy, because I keep forgetting I like those things."Then I started reading Possession. The happiness project got put on the back burner until I was ready to emerge from the Victorian melancholia, which placed demands on my time too great to allow for preparing meals. I never cried at this book, exactly, but I frequently wept the way a lemon
I did it! I conquered the beast. That's a tad dramatic, but this book wasn't always the most fun to read even though I do appreciate everything Byatt accomplished. Creating this story about fictional Victorian poets, including their writings, letters, diaries, etc. is extremely impressive. But I did find it slow at times and she tends to digress a lot into descriptions that add very little to the story. I assume her own writing style was trying to mimic the poets' own writing styles, but I
Too much work for too little reward.I read somewhere that if you pick up a book, and you're not enjoying it by either: a) your age (if you are under 50); or b) 100 minus your age (if you are over 50), you should abandon it and move on. There is too much to read and life is too short to be spent reading bad books.I think this applies particularly to books in that grey zone, where you can tell the writer is winding up to something, and the style and story has enough ooomph in it to keep you
Artfully Told Tale of Academics, Victorian Poets and RomanceI wanted to like this book more than I actually did.Many Goodreaders really like this metafictional novel, which contains a story (and poetry) within a story. There is much to admire here.The author skillfully interweaves two time periods. One was 1987 (close to the time the novel was written), the other nineteenth century Victorian England.She not only invents two poets, but writes a lot of their poetry. The skill and brilliance
OK I have to say something. People keep writing reviews of this book and talking about how it was great except for all the boring poems which they skipped through.READ THE POETRY, PEOPLE! What's the matter with everyone?? They're actually rather good, they are full of plot clues, and, duh, they're a key part of the novel you're reading. I mean what is going on here? Do people really hate poetry so much that they're skipping a few pages of it in the middle of a story? If you try that shit with
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