Still Life (Byatt novel) explained
| Still Life |
| Author: | A. S. Byatt |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus |
| Pub Date: | 1985 |
Still Life is a 1985 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 1985.
The novel is the second in a sequence of four books, preceded by The Virgin in the Garden (1978) and succeeded by Babel Tower (1996) and A Whistling Woman (2002).[1] [2] [3]
In the interval between publication of Still Life and Babel Tower, Byatt published Possession: A Romance, her best-selling novel, which won the 1990 Booker Prize.[4]
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Notes and References
- Yeazell . Ruth Bernard . Overindulgence . London Review of Books . 28 November 2002 . 24 . 23 . 1 November 2022 . en . 0260-9592.
- News: That thinking feeling. The Observer. Marianne. Brace. 9 June 1996.
- Web site: Dame A. S. Byatt. British Council
Literature
. 25 October 2022.
- An interview with A. S. Byatt. Cercles. Jenny. Newman. James. Friel. 2003. 11 September 2010. JN & JF: When Possession was published in 1990 you were in the middle of a quartet. The Virgin in the Garden had appeared in 1978, and Still Life in 1985, but with Babel Tower (1996) and A Whistling Woman (2002) still to come, the quartet was taking you some time to complete. ASB: Most of the gap was caused by the death of my son. I went to teach at University College simply to pay his school fees, and he got killed the week I accepted the job. I wouldn't have otherwise become a teacher, I wanted to become a writer. Added to which I was pregnant, so the slowness of the novels, given a full-time university job, a new baby and a dead child can be put as a flat, autobiographical narrative... There were two things going on in my mind: one was that I knew that Babel Tower, the third in the quartet, ought to be a parodic novel in several voices, and I thought that I wasn't technically skilled enough..
