Product Description

Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us to see both our own and other worlds and times and, perhaps most brilliantly, the connections between them.

Vintage Byatt includes a self-contained section from the bestselling Possession; selections from the Matisse Stories, Elementals, Sugar and Other Stories, and the recent Little Black Book of Stories; and essays from the collection Passions of the Mind.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #714956 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-12
• Released on: 2004-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
“Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being.” --The New York Times


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Review
“Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being.” --The New York Times

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Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us to see both our own and other worlds and times and, perhaps most brilliantly, the connections between them.

Vintage Byatt includes a self-contained section from the bestselling Possession; selections from the Matisse Stories, Elementals, Sugar and Other Stories, and the recent Little Black Book of Stories; and essays from the collection Passions of the Mind.

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.