5/25/2023 0 Comments Novel by as byatt![]() ![]() In the present, a researcher in a dark room can feel that history still survives in reality as his mind recites the verses written by the late Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash. His curiosity brings life into inert things, making them shine with their inner glow because he doesn’t want to possess what he loves instead, he cherishes it making it flourish in its natural state. The novel alternates between the past and the present, where in the past, a poet observes a mysterious creature that appears half woman and half mermaid bathing in the sea. in 1986, the Still Life novel won The PEN/ Macmillan Silver Pen Of Fiction prize Possession has also won other prizes, including the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 and The Eurasian section of Best Book in Commonwealth Prize in 1991. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999. ![]() Her book, Possession, won the Booker Prize. She was a teacher at Central School of Art before deciding to become a full-time writer. ![]() A.S Byatt is an internationally recognized author of literature and fiction novels and short stories. ![]()
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