A S Byatt

The Virgin in the Garden (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.

THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448162819
• Artikelnr.: 61130930

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Large, complex, ambitious, humming with energy and ideas... A remarkable achievement Iris Murdoch