Still Life
This is a marvelous and most unusual work, full of thought, full of people, and full of language; a deep work, inspiring laughter and tears, a major novel.
This is a marvelous and most unusual work, full of thought, full of people, and full of language; a deep work, inspiring laughter and tears, a major novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780020178552 (0020178557)
Publish date: September 30th 1991
Publisher: Collier Books
Pages no: 384
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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