Still Life - Softcover

Byatt, A.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684835037 ISBN 13: 9780684835037

Publisher: Scribner, 1997

Synopsis

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon"

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Frederica Potter, "doomed to be intelligent'' plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, A.S Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.

From the Back Cover:

“A major novel…a marvellous and most unusual work.” -- Iris Murdoch

“Affords enormous and continuous pleasure.” -- Anita Brookner

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684835037
• ISBN 13: 9780684835037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400