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Title: STILL LIFE by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0-684-83503-7 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 4 1/2 stars; almost perfect
Comment: This is a breathtaking novel. I was not that enthusiatic about The Virgin in te Garden but this book was amazing on every level. I love the development of these characters (who seem very real, very Known to me). Frederica is especially well developed. Her intelligence and lack of self-knowledge are an endearing package. I personally love the intricate explanations of ideas- it is refreshing to read about things that I think about and yet have never found elsewhere. My only real probelm with the book is that the author's voice intrudes too much; it isn't necessary to me to be AWARE of the fact that this is a novel. Byatt almost wants us to be aware that this is fiction when I would always rather be in that pleasant state of believing in the fiction. But overall, I couldn't put this book down; what happens at the end is shockingly sad. I wonder what book 3 in the series will bring.
Rating: 5
Summary: Still Life
Comment: Byatt's use of words, language, create beautiful mental images. I've never run across an author who is able to "paint" with words. I didn't like Frederica Potter, introduced in the first novel of Byatt's four-book series, A Virgin In The Garden. I didn't sympathize with her. I didn't understand her cold, passionate, intellectual personality. By the end of Still Life, I desperately cared for her. The third book, Babel Tower, disturbs me. That's a different review. Still Life is superior to A Virgin In The Garden. I couldn't put it down. If you're a Byatt fan, don't miss these novels. The seem to be more unwieldly than Possession, but Byatt's genius is all there.
Rating: 2
Summary: AN APT TITLE
Comment: There is little movement in this exploration of a mid level suburban English family. Admittedly, there are passages of remarkable insight, but enormous amounts of time are devoted to the author's obsessions with parturition, infant development,
pale sexuality, and show-offy displays of her academic credentials in literature. I kept hoping for some original thoughts and theories of human behavior, but was disappointed and bored. Much of this material has been explored before and with greater skill and intelligence.
As I moved from page to page it reminded me of slogging through the swamps of Mississippi, on bivouac, back in 1945. It was something that had to be done, but I wondered why.
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Title: The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0679738290 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0679736808 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Whistling Woman by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0375415343 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0679735909 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Angels and Insects: Two Novellas by A. S. Byatt ISBN: 0679751343 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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