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On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
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In her powerful opening essays – ‘Fathers’, ‘Forefathers’ and ‘Ancestors’ – A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new ‘Darwinian novel’. These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Burgess, William Golding and Muriel Spark, and other contemporary authors, including Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker.She also offers fascinating insight into her own translation of historical fact into fiction in the two novellas which make up Angels and Insects.
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| Weight | 0.149 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 |
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| Year Published | 2001-11-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099283832 |
| About The Author | A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. |
Going from reference to reference in these glittering pages provides you with an essential reading-list for life |
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| Other text | Invigorating criticism |
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