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The Biographer's Tale: A Novelby A.S. Byatt
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Book DescriptionVintage, 2001-12-04. Very Good. Overall excellent presentation. Clean covers with sharp corners, clean and tight pages, square: a very crisp, sweet copy. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Spine UNcreased. Book summaryPhineas G. Nanson, an English graduate student, begins researching the life of a famous and revered biographer named Scholes Destry-Scholes, finding out in the process that he distorted his subjects' lives and often made things up. In addition, Nanson discovers several parallels between his own life and that of Destry-Scholes, including his involvement with two women, one of them his own niece. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.Media Reviews"The novelist's power amid the talk to configure love and that which is uncannily alive (using hardly a detail, Byatt is an erotic master) exhilarates this book and its readers out of their tangles." -- Richard Eder, New York Times "Theory and esoteric allusion dominate the action from start to finish....But whereas the author's Booker Prize-winning POSSESSION (1990) was able to work these academic concerns into a genuinely affecting story, this novel is too brittle to support the scholarly showmanship she heaps upon it." -- Stephen Amidon, Atlantic Monthly First LineI made my decision, abruptly, in the middle of one of Gareth Butcher's famous theoretical seminars. Publisher NotesFrom the Booker Prize—winning author of Possession comes this erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth. Phineas G. Nanson, a disillusioned post-graduate student, decides to leave his abstract studies and pursue a seemingly concrete task: to write a biography of a great biographer. But Phineas quickly discovers that facts can be unreliable and a “whole life” hard to define. As he tracks his subject from Africa to the Arctic, he comes to rely on two women–one of whom may be the guide he needs out of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer’s Tale is a provocative look at “truth” in biography and our perennial quest for certainty. Other Recommended Books
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