The Biographer's Tale

A. S. Byatt

Original title: The biographer's tale

earliest edition we have, 2000 Vintage, 2001 320 pages

From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact.Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who 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...

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The Biographer's Tale hardcover · 2001 · Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C · 376 pages · 9780754016410
The Biographer's Tale ebook · 2001 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780375413421
The Biographer's Tale edition · 2001 · Vintage · 320 pages · 9780375725081
The biographer's tale edition · 2001 · A.A. Knopf · 305 pages
The biographer's tale edition · 2001 · Thorndike Press · 367 pages
Biographer's Tale edition · 2001 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9780099283935
The biographer's tale edition · 2000 · Chatto & Windus · 265 pages

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