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Biographer's Tale
by A. S. Byatt
ISBN: 0375725083
ISBN-13: 9780375725081
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Phineas 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.
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"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 305
Publisher's Notes
From 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.
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The Biographer's Tale: A Novel
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 2001. New soft cover. Front cover illustrated with a color picture. Cover and page edging are clean. Leaves are clean, crisp and unmarked. Illustrated with black and white pictures. Has 305 pages.. Soft Cover. New. ( more information) Offered by Book Lovers Warehouse (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 2001. Book shows light to moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers show minor edge wear. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar (United States)
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London England: QPD. Fine. 2000. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0375725083 Paperback The author weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. . ( more information) Offered by thelondonbookworm.com (United Kingdom)
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