2 Books by A.S. Byatt
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Overview: A.S. Byatt is the author of the Booker Prize–winning Possession: A Romance. She has taught English and American literature at University College, London, and is a distinguished critic and reviewer. Her critical work includes Degrees of Freedom (a study of Iris Murdoch), Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time, and Passions of the Mind: Selected Essays. She is also the author of five previously published works of fiction, Shadow of a Sun, The Game, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Sugar and Other Stories. The Matisse Stories, a collection of short fiction, is her most recent work.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
The Biographer’s Tale: 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.
Little Black Book of Stories: Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.
Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
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