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The Biographer's Tale
A S Byatt
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Description for The Biographer's Tale
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges but remains very good
In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of coins and undated postcards. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved.Phineas feels he is hunting shadows. Like a ... Read more
In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of coins and undated postcards. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved.Phineas feels he is hunting shadows. Like a ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701169459
SKU
KOC0024676
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99-1
Reviews for The Biographer's Tale
'this latest novel will not disappoint those for whom her gentle wit, exquisite erudition and exotic plots approximate literary manna . even more perfectly formed than usual.', Metro