Still Life
$35.02
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
4 July 1995
Summary
Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover.
Frederica arrives at Cambridge University, greedy for knowledge, sex, and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom and frustrations of motherhood. Meanwhile, their younger brother Marcus begins to recover from a nervous breakdown. Each sibling is desperate to shape their own future, but a horrify…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099479918 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099479915 |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 1995 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 27mm |
| Series: | The Frederica Potter Novels |
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Critics Review
“A major novel…a marvellous and most unusual work.” –Iris Murdoch “Affords enormous and continuous pleasure.” – Anita Brookner
Marvellous… A major novel, inspiring laughter and tears – Iris MurdochGlorious… Frederica is a magnificent creation; awkward, fierce, intellectually voracious and sexually inexperienced – Francesca Segal, author of The Awkward AgeAffords enormous and continuous pleasure – Anita BrooknerByatt is a wonderful writer, constantly engaging wherever she takes us * The Times *
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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