The Shadow of the Sun

Informationen zum Autor A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Klappentext Reissues of classic A.S. Byatt novels with new illustrative covers. Byatt has won the Booker prize along with other plaudits. Zusammenfassung After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and Anna enters university, the pair grow closer.

Product details

• Authors: A S Byatt, A. S. Byatt, A.S. Byatt
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.1991
• EAN: 9780099889601
• ISBN: 978-0-09-988960-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age