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About A.S. Byatt
See more books from this AuthorThough this and other similarly loopy sequences are great fun to read, Byatt offers relatively little story, and a top-heavy load of arch speculation about the conflict between Art (Vera) and Life (Fulla), the likelihood that biographers (especially the resourceful Destry-Scholes) invent as much ...
| Read Full Review of The Biographer's TaleTo his dismay, Nanson discovers that the revered Destry-Scholes has taken great liberties with the facts, inventing false incidents and inserting imaginary details.
| Read Full Review of The Biographer's TaleInstead, he rails to the universe that he will now simply Joe Friday himself into working only with "facts" --- so he spends days mining the life of Victorian traveler, writer, and diplomat Elmer Bole, only to decide that he is destined to write a biography of Bole's own biographer, Scholes Destr...
Jan 21 2011 | Read Full Review of The Biographer's TalePresented with the subject of the contemporary pursuit of knowledge, Byatt has crafted a book of chaos: carefully orchestrated and entertaining chaos, but chaos nonetheless.
Apr 19 2002 | Read Full Review of The Biographer's TaleScrewing his courage to the sticking place, Phineas G.
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