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Babel Tower

A S Byatt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Apr '97

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'Tartly funny, emotionally engrossing and headily intelligent' Sunday Times

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. When her husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case, Frederica’s life threatens to spiral out of control.

THE THIRD FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly controversial novel. When her husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case, Frederica’s life threatens to spiral out of control.

THE THIRD FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

Tartly funny, emotionally engrossing and headily intelligent * Sunday Times *
A formidable feast of a book... A. S. Byatt can use her extraordinary mind to probe passional conflicts more hair-raisingly well than any thriller-writer * Daily Telegraph *
In this exuberant and vastly ambitious novel, A. S. Byatt has made both an intellectual chronicle and an intimate history... This book is about the life of art and the art of living, and its prose is charged with powerful images * Harpers & Queen *
A remarkable book, of exceptional gravity and serious charm... it balances an acute sense of the values of art and intellect with an imaginative sympathy. Its ambition is almost unique in the English novel * Spectator *

ISBN: 9780099839408

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 38mm

Weight: 418g

624 pages