A multilayered retelling of the end of the world from Norse mythology, framed by the award-winning British novelist's analysis of how myth relates to her own work.
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With painstaking precision, Booker-winner Byatt (A Whistling Woman, 2002, etc.) analyzes the frailty, impermanence, and disturbing complexity of the human body.
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The life of the mind and the confusions of the spirit confront one another to often telling effect in Byatt's lavishly orchestrated eighth novel.
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Seven essays by novelist Byatt (The Biographer's Tale, 2000, etc.), all ostensibly linked by the motifs of writing and reading fiction set in the past.
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An academic who forsakes the realm of concepts and theories for the quotidian world of "things" is the unlikely--and quite likable--protagonist of Byatt's formidably learned latest, which echoes rather loudly her Booker Prize–winning Possession (1999).
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