Passions of the Mind
by Byatt, A S
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/good
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Old New York Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46159
- Title
- Passions of the Mind
- Author
- Byatt, A S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Turtle Bay Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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- Literature;
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