Babel Tower (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Byatt, A. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067975881X ISBN 13: 9780679758815

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 1996

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966p large paperback, first large print edition, this copy from a Cambridge college library with minimal library markings, corners a little curled otherwise very good

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Reseña del editor:

While an independent young woman struggles with a personal crisis, her friends and family become caught up in the clashing politics, ideals, shifting sexual roles, and upheaval of the early 1960s. By the author of Possession. (General Fiction).

Nota de la solapa:

overed A. S. Byatt when Possession, her Booker Prize-winning Victorian novel, was published here in 1990 and became one of the bestselling books of that year. Readers have been waiting ever since for her next full-length novel. Babel Tower is every bit as brilliant and ambitious as its predecessor, but with a more contemporary setting: the 1960s, a decade of turbulence and passionate ideals that Byatt uses to both frame and propel the lives of her characters.

At the heart of the novel are two law cases that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit, and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both, and her personal and legal crises mirror those of the age. This is the decade of The Beatles, the Death of God, and the birth of computer languages. The resulting confusion, charted with a brilliant imaginative sympathy, is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre.

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067975881X
• ISBN 13: 9780679758815
• Einband: Tapa blanda