Babel Tower - Hardcover

Byatt, A. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405135 ISBN 13: 9780679405139

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1996

Synopsis

While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s. By the author of Possession. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

"Frederica is one of the more interesting characters in contemporary fiction" -- J.M.Coetzee New York Review of Books "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 book is about the life of art and the art of living, and its prose is charged with powerful images" Harpers & Queen "A remarkable book, of exceptional gravity and serious charm... it balances an acute sense of the values of art and intellect with an imaginative sympathy. Its ambition is almost unique in the English novel" Spectator "Tartly funny, emotionally engrossing and headily intelligent" Sunday Times

Book Description:

A. S. Byatt's gripping drama of the 1960s, the third novel in the quartet which began with VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN and STILL LIFE

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679405135
• ISBN 13: 9780679405139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 623