The Children's Book (Paperback)
Byatt, A. S. (Author)
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A panoramic novel of family secrets, set against a backdrop of a bohemian, artistic late Victorian and Edwardian world, and with real commercial as well as literary potential, about the damage wrought by writers of children's books on their children - about predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.
Reviews
Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid novel...seethes and pulses with an entangled life, of the mind and the senses alike. Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing...she is a master-potter, or magic-working puppeteerIndependent - Boyd TonkinSuperla...
ISBN (SKU)
9780099535454
Pages
617
Weight
460g
Dimensions
196x128x36
Imprint
Vintage
Published
07, January, 2010
Genres
Fiction
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