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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives.
“Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.” —Vogue
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a...
“Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.” —Vogue
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a...
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Knopf
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1979.
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English
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In 1953, at an isolated boys' school in the Yorkshire moors, is a young teacher, Alexander Wedderburn, whose imagination had been captured by the Queen Elizabeth of Shakespeare and Spenser and who has written an historical verse play about her. Now, suddenly, his play has been taken up by a wealthy patron of the arts who envisions its production on the most magnificent scale, for it is to be the climax of a local festival honoring the new Queen Elizabeth....
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