PORTRAITS IN FICTION (Based on the Heywood Hill Annual Lecture, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2000),
by A S Byatt
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, and usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London - 2001 hardcover, 5¼" x 7½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, and usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket In her own novels, A S Byatt has often evoked the power of portraits. Calling on a host of illustrations, she invites us to share, and enjoy, the writer's preoccupation with the painted image. A feast for the eye and for the imagination, this book is a remarkable exploration of the marriage of two great genres. Book includes 24 colour plates and 13 b&w plates.
Synopsis
A. S. Byatt is acclaimed internationally for her fiction and also for her criticism in the fields of both literature and art. Her novels include Possession , The Biographer’s Tale , the sequence A Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman , published by Chatto & Windus in November.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 41313
- Title
- PORTRAITS IN FICTION (Based on the Heywood Hill Annual Lecture, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2000),
- Author
- A S Byatt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 5¼" x 7½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, and usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London -
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 102 pages
- Keywords
- A S Byatt authors and writers painters portraitists
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