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Awards: Booker Prize (1990), Irish Times International Fiction Prize (1990), Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) (1991)
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Language: English
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Blurbs:
- "Dazzling, virtuostic...as substantian and impressive a storytelling achievement as the ample heritage of the eminent Victorians themselves." Boston Globe
- "Brilliant...A novel like Possession, which is both a mystery and a love story, and is also reassuringly complex and allusive, is a rarety...[a] feat of human ingenuity." Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books
- "More heartfelt and more fun to read than The Name of the Rose...Its prankish verve [and] monstrous richness of detail [make for] a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types....What is finest in Possession is what the artist illuminates about those, including herself, who love the word." Judith Thurman, New Yorker
- "A. S. Byatt takes the passion and psyche-searching of a 19th century novel and molds it into a detective story to create a literary thriller....A work of reflecting mirrors and twisting intrigues, Byatt's sometimes biting prose...becomes a page-turning flood of emotion." New York Newsday
- "An exhilerating, virtuosis exploration of the many ways language has of speaking...[Byatt] ingeniously juxtaposes the previous century with the hothouse world of the conemporary academy [and] puts all her linguistic and parodic skills on display...[a] tour de force." New Republic
- "An altogether convincing literary romance...as lushly sensuous in detail as a pre-Raphaelite painting yet wonderfully entertaining." Joyce Carol Oates
- "[A] wonderfully two-tiered mystery of letters, the most craftily constructed conjunction of Victorian and modern styles since The French Lieutenant's Woman...[Byatt's] elaborate creations of poetry, correspondence, and journals in Victorian style are vivid....You will be transfixed." People
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Possession (1991)
Format: Paperback
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Vintage International
ISBN: 0679735909
Pages: 555
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