The Biographer's Tale

Byatt, A. S.

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: London: Chatto & Windus (2000)., 2000

0701169451 / 9780701169459

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[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: A S Byatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S.Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G decides to study the messiness of 'real life' Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps- bones and husks, oxes of marbles, collections of coins and undated postcards. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. hineas feels he is hunting shadows Like a shaman flying across the globe, his mind tracks the journeys of his subjects to the deserts of Africa and the maelstroms of the Arctic, where the shapes of myth meet the patterns of science. He meets others building wholes from bits and pieces- taxonomists, ecologists to trave; agents offering the trip of your dreams. In the process he also puzzles out his own future - but which woman will guide him out of the labyrinth.…

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Titolo
The Biographer's Tale
Autore
Byatt, A. S.
Editore
London: Chatto & Windus (2000).
Anno di pubblicazione
2000
Tipo di libro
Hardback
Rilegatura
Hardback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0701169451
ISBN 13
9780701169459

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