http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/fairytales-byatt-abstract-loveAndersen's world is also full of things. He animates them. He gives them characters, like a lonely child playing demiurge with the contents of a kitchen. As I grow older, the fact of the existence of the world's huge compendiu...
I was lucky enough to be in Toronto and so was able to pick this up before its U.S. release (apparently we don't deserve it until the fall).I thought it would be a second Possession, but it's not, which is good. In some ways, Byatt's style in this book seems closer to the style of her sister, Drabb...
Sigh, I was really looking forward to this one but after 200 pages I just can't get into it and since I have a ton of books waiting in the wings, I am going to put it aside for now...
Byatt is curiously prone to report the behavior of her characters, rather than just show them. If she weren't dealing with so much: fairy tales and folklore, the Arts and Crafts movement, the rise of Fabianism and social justice movements of all kinds; if not for all that it'd be a dud. And while I'...
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