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Scribner (1997), Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed, Paperback, 400 pages
Description
Frederica Potter, 'doomed to be intelligent'' plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN, A. S Byatt illuminates the inevitable conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a subtle yet incisive observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s
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Still life extends its scene to France, Cambridge University, and London, with the devising of a play about Van Gogh as one major theme, involving consideration of his—and all—art. The weight, length, seriousness and complexity of these novels made them fit works for indexing.
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Awards
PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (Winner — 1986)
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Physical description
400 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
0684835037 / 9780684835037