The Game: A Novel - Brossura

Byatt, A. S.

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ISBN 10: 0679742565 ISBN 13: 9780679742562

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1992

Riassunto

The imaginary retreat of two young sisters becomes a dangerous game when they grow older and become vulnerable to the machinations of an evil man determined to control their thoughts. Reprint.

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L'autore

A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game, and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.

Product Description

The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers--until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679742565
• ISBN 13: 9780679742562
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288