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Description for Babel Tower
Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
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 husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case, Frederica’s life threatens to spiral out of control.
THE THIRD FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099839408
SKU
KKD0000111
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Babel Tower
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more