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Vintage Byatt

A. S. Byatt

The ideal introduction to the novels, stories, and essays of fabulist, realist, critic, and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. - "Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being." --The New York Times

A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us to see both our own and other worlds and times and, perhaps most brilliantly, the connections between them.

Vintage Byatt includes a self-contained section from the bestselling Possession; selections from the Matisse Stories, Elementals, Sugar and Other Stories, and the recent Little Black Book of Stories; and essays from the collection Passions of the Mind.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Oct 12nd, 2004
  • Pages: 208
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.04in - 5.24in - 0.56in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781400077458
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.

Praise for this book

"Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being." --The New York Times