04077cam a2200409 4500 240254267 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307819567 0307819566 B007OLYPW2 Amazon ab398ea1-823e-4153-b0ae-d38ea1adc9b4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 22383 848784 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Byatt, A.S. Possession [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2198kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>Hailed by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. <i>Time</i> magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness."<br /> <br /> <b>Possession</b>, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. "On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. On the nature of possession--the lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subject--she is profound," said <i>The Sunday Times</i> (London). The <i>New Yorker</i> dubbed it "more fun to read than <i>The Name of the Rose</i> . . . Its prankish verve [and] monstrous richness of detail [make for] a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types." The novel traces a pair of young academics--Roland Michell and Maud Bailey--as they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fairytales, extracts from biographies and scholarly accounts, creating a sensuous and utterly delightful novel of ideas and passions.<br /> <br /> With an Introduction by the author that describes the novel's origins and its twenty-year gestation, this Modern Library edition is a handsome keepsake for fans of <b>Possession</b>--new and old alike.</p>. HTML:"This cerebral extravaganza of a story zigzags with unembarrassed zest across an imaginative terrain bristling with symbolism and symmetries, shimmering with myth and legend, and haunted everywhere by presences of the past. . . . <b>Possession</b> is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them.". HTML:<i>The Sunday Times</i> (London.) HTML:<p>"Byatt is the most formidably equipped of contemporary novelists. . . . The great merit of [her] writing . . . is that it continually engages the reader's mind."</p>. HTML:-<i>The Daily Telegraph</i>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-11 10:13:24. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ab398ea1-823e-4153-b0ae-d38ea1adc9b4 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AB3/98E/A1/Possession9780307819567.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB398EA1-823E-4153-B0AE-D38EA1ADC9B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AB3/98E/A1/Possession9780307819567.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB398EA1-823E-4153-B0AE-D38EA1ADC9B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/AB3/98E/A1/Possession9780307819567.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB398EA1-823E-4153-B0AE-D38EA1ADC9B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)