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Title: The Virgin in the Garden : A Novel by A.S. Byatt ISBN: 0-679-73829-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: brutal going
Comment: there's no music, as it were, in what a.s. byatt does: i have read three of her novels now and i'm, i think, in a pretty good position to judge her stuff as utterly pretentious and banal. read just one page of hers and compare it to a paragraph (a single sentence?!) of James Joyce. i am an english prof--hence all the lit allusions in this novel just kinda made me sick. she drops so many names/quotations you need an imaginary broom to sweep them away. dreadful dreck. you need something Englishy to read--investigate William Boyd or Julian Barnes. byatt is like a parody of good writing. only salman rushdie's fiction is more onanistic (though his criticism's pretty cool). byatt is the literary equivalent of Stevie Nicks! Icky!!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Makes you want to read the sequels
Comment: I love A.S. Byatt's style- dense, literary, yet down-to-earth in may ways. The Potter family is portrayed carefully, with a look at the quirks and dynamics of a family. I like Frederica, despite realizing she is not very sympathetic. My only issue with the book is that there are some moments of indescribable bordom when reading about the Potter boy. He is troubled and sometimes the scenes of him trying to discover comfort in the world read as hilarious, but often as not they made me want to snooze. However, I still want to learn More about this family, so the author did almost everything else right!
Rating: 4
Summary: Dense and powerful
Comment: I have read The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, its sequal, twice. The first time I was predominantly aware of the lushness of Byatt's language, which is something I notice when I first read all of her books. For me it almost impedes my ability to understand and follow the plot. The second reading for me was much more satisfying. I really like the Potter family, with all of their eccentricity and irrascibility.
The is the beginning of a very satisfying, sometimes very sad, series of books. They are worth the sometimes slow reading required.
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Title: STILL LIFE by A.S. Byatt ISBN: 0684835037 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt ISBN: 0679736808 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 24 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Whistling Woman by A.S. BYATT ISBN: 0375415343 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Possession : A Romance by A.S. BYATT ISBN: 0679735909 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Angels and Insects : Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt ISBN: 0679751343 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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