Winner of the Booker Prize1990
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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance,at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It's the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters,journals and poems they uncover a web of passion,deceit and tragedy,and their quest becomes a battle against time.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099800408Number of pages: 624Weight: 450 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 32 mm
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'A triumphant success on every level.'- Cosmopolitan
'Teeming with more ideas than a year's worth of ordinary novels.'- Spectator
'This is a novel for every taste: a heartbreaking Victorian love story,a take-no-prisoners comedy of contemporary academic life,and an unputdownable supernatural mystery. You turn the last page feeling stunned and elated,happy to have had the chance to read it.'- Washington Post
'Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And,with sumptuous artistry,it provides a feast of them.'- Sunday Times
'Our best novelist.'- Evening Standard
A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy,DBE,also known as A.S. Byatt,is an internationally renowned English author.
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