$46.15
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
6 June 1997
Summary
Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover.
Frederica endures the breakdown of her marriage and becomes embroiled in a high-profile court case.
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly controversial novel. When her…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099839408 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099839407 |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 1997 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 38mm |
| Series: | The Frederica Potter Novels |
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Tartly funny, emotionally engrossing and headily intelligent
Tartly funny, emotionally engrossing and headily intelligent * Sunday Times *
A formidable feast of a book… A. S. Byatt can use her extraordinary mind to probe passional conflicts more hair-raisingly well than any thriller-writer * Daily Telegraph *
In this exuberant and vastly ambitious novel, A. S. Byatt has made both an intellectual chronicle and an intimate history… This book is about the life of art and the art of living, and its prose is charged with powerful images * Harpers & Queen *
A remarkable book, of exceptional gravity and serious charm… it balances an acute sense of the values of art and intellect with an imaginative sympathy. Its ambition is almost unique in the English novel * Spectator *
About The Author
A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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