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About the book
In this witty, Borges-like novel, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of "real life". Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a "whole life" is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: disconnected typescripts, bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of photographs. Tra...Show more
Book details
ISBN
9780701169459
Publisher
Chatto and Windus
Published year
2000
Language
English
Edition
1
Original title
The biographer's tale
Format
Hardcover
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