Babel Tower
by A.S. Byatt
List Price: $14.00
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679736808
Publisher: Vintage
A S. Byatt is a native of Yorkshire, England, born Antonia Susan
Drabble in 1936. She has had a distinguished career as a literary critic
and an academic, teaching English and American literature at University
College, London, and she has published a book on the nineteenth century,
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time; a collection
of essays and book reviews, Passions of the Mind; and two books
on the novelist Iris Murdoch. Although her interests are manifold, she
has made Romantic and Victorian poetry her specialty. Babel Tower
is the third of a planned tetralogy about the Potter family; the two earlier
volumes were The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life. Byatt
is the author of two collections of stories, Sugar and Other Stories
and The Matisse Stories, two other novels, Shadow of a Sun
and Possession, a spectacularly successful work that won the 1990
Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize
and reached a large international readership. The Djinn in the Nightingale's
Eye, two novellas, will be published in November 1997.
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