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BABEL TOWER
de BYATT, A. S
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Babel Tower is the third novel in a planned quartet of novels, following The Virgin in the Garden, and Still Life, and concluding with Babel Tower. The series depicts the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970, each in their own mid-century time frames and centering on one woman -- Frederica.
Sinopsis
A.S. Byatt is the author of Possession , winner of the Booker Prize and a national bestseller. The two novels leading up to Babel Tower , which trace the fortunes of Frederica and her family through the 1950's, are The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life . Byatt's other fiction includes The Shadow of the Sun , The Game , Angels and Insects and two collections of shorter works: Sugar and Other Stories and The Matisse Stories . She has also published three volumes of critical work, of which Passions of the Mind is the most recent. She has taught English and American literature at University College, London, and is a distinguished critic and reviewer. She lives in London.
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- Librería
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 469
- Título
- BABEL TOWER
- Autor
- BYATT, A. S
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First US edition
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- Women, English life, clashing cultures, 1960s, 1970s
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Second Wind Books LLC
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