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The biographer's tale / A.S. Byatt.
LIBRA - Special PR6052.Y2 B56 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778--Fiction.
- Linné, Carl von.
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911--Fiction.
- Galton, Francis.
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906--Fiction.
- Ibsen, Henrik.
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
- Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
- Biographers--Fiction.
- Biographers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, 2001.
- Summary:
- Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student, decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of "real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. In a series of adventures that are by turns intellectual and comic, scientific and sensual, Phineas tracks his subject to the deserts of Africa and the maelstrom of the Arctic. Along the way he comes to rely on two women, one of whom may be the guide he needs to get out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer's Tale is a provocative look at "truth" in biography and our perennial quest for certainty.
- ISBN:
- 0375725083
- 9780375725081
- OCLC:
- 48645709
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