Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition/First Printing. This copy has been Inscribed by Booker Prize Winning author A.S. Byatt on the title page! " For Daniel Wheeler from A S Byatt". Babel Tower is a soaring achievement, an exhilarating evocation of the private and public obsessions of Britain in the 1960s. At the heart of the novel are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story" a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Signed by Author(s).

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Title: Babel Tower
Publisher: Random House, new york
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0679405135
ISBN 13: 9780679405139
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a stunning, contemporary story set against the clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles of the early 1960s. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the day seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. Peopled with weird and colorful characters, charted with brilliant, imaginative sympathy, Babel Tower is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre.

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A.S. Byatt is the author of Possession, winner of the Booker Prize and a national bestseller. Her two novels that lead up to Babel Tower, tracing the fortunes of Frederica and her family through the 1950's, are The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, and her 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 Mindis 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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