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STILL LIFE - Softcover

Book 4 of 4: The Frederica Potter

Byatt, A. S.

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9780020178552: STILL LIFE
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0020178557 ISBN 13: 9780020178552
Publisher: Collier Books, 1991

Synopsis

Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction

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From Library Journal

Still Life is the second volume of a te tralogy. The three Potter children, Stephanie, Frederika and Marcus, in troduced in The Virgin in the Garden ( LJ 2/15/79), continue in conflict with their Yorkshire roots. To them, and to the author, intellectual passions are as all-encompassing as emotional ties, and always at war with them. Frederika, whose novel this really is, escapes to Cambridge and the life of the mind, al beit not without constant struggle. Mar cus, after a long breakdown, manages to stay and function in Yorkshire. Stephanie, having opted for small-town family life, loses her fight to retain an independent intellectual existence and is horribly vanquished by the material world in the book's one tragic moment. This is an opaque, challenging, and re warding novel . While its intellectual preoccupations and allusions will not be readily accessible to a broad reading public, it belongs in major fiction col lections. Diana Vincent-Davis, New York Univ. Sch . of Law Lib.
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Publisher
Collier Books
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0020178557
ISBN 13 
9780020178552
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
384
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