Still Life
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved,...
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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon"
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684835037 (0684835037)
ASIN: 684835037
Publish date: April 1st 1997
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: The Frederica Quartet (#2)
This is a novel that made me cringe time after time, and yet I am compelled to say I loved it (not as much as [b:The Virgin in the Garden|86888|The Virgin in the Garden|A.S. Byatt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1399401834s/86888.jpg|245459], perhaps, and not as much as [b:Possession|41219|Possession|...
Putting this on hold until I read "Virgin." I think I'm missing too much because of being unfamiliar with the characters.
The organizer of the book club I'd recently joined chose this for the group to read, citing it as one of her favorite novels read during the one year of an aborted Master's in literature that she managed to bring up at least twice per meeting. I got this book out of the library. A few days later, I ...
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