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Possession, A Romance - A.S. Byatt

 
Description: ISBN 009943184X / Author: A.S. Byatt / Genre: Fiction / Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two ... more
Possession, A Romance - A.S. Byatt ... 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.

Newest Review: ... affair between two hitherto unconnected Victorian poets, the fictional R.H Ash and Christabel La Motte. Roland and Maud (as ... more

 ... well as the reader) work together to piece together the story of the affair through the letters, poem fragments, folkloric myths and other sources which Byatt includes in her narrative. There are two strands to the story, the contemporary strand involving Roland and Maud and the historical romance of Ash and La Motte. These strands intertwine to communicate the themes of passion and possession: the passions of literary discovery and interpretation and the similarly all-consuming passion - possession - of romanti...more

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Premium Review Possession, A Romance - A.S. Byatt: A Pre-possessing Romance (247 words)
by - written on 21/08/02 (Useful, 211 readings)
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'Possession' is subtitled ‘A Romance’ and is, among other things, both a quest and a self-consciously literary exploration of love in the contemporary cultural climate where the very word is suspect. English academics Roland and Maud stumble across a literary mystery: hidden correspondence which points to an illicit love affair between two hitherto unconnected Victorian poets, the fictional R.H Ash and Christabel La Motte. Roland and Maud (as well as the reader) work together to piece together the story of the affair through the letters, poem fragments, folkloric myths and other sources which Byatt includes in her narrative. There are ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review An intellectual romance (1109 words)
by - written on 29/10/01 (Very useful, 1072 readings)
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This book was recommended to me by a friend. It's not the sort of thing I usually go for. I'm more your Patricia Cornwell type of a girl, but I do have an intellectual streak and she was so impressed with it, I thought it had to be worth giving a go. She was right. It had mystery, it had romance - two romances really, which paralleled each other in a thought-provoking manner, whilst at the same time having you (or at least me) rooting for the protagonists to get together, just like when I'm reading Jilly Cooper (don't be put off if you're not a Jilly Cooper reader, it wasn't Jilly-Cooper-like apart from that). OK, time ...  Read the complete review

 

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