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Possession

by A.S. Byatt
Virginia Leishman
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A.S. Byatt is noted for her ability to weave richly detailed stories. But in Possession she has created a stunning tour-de-force. It is mesmerizing literary mystery filled with poetry and passion. Roland Mitchell, a young academic assistant, has devoted his life to studying the life and works of 19th century writer Randolph Henry Ash. One day in the university library, Roland opens a dusty volume and finds a provocative letter written by Ash to an unnamed woman. From that moment, Roland begins a quest for information about this mysterious person. His search will take him into the domain of Dr. Maud Bailey, a beautiful, keenly intelligent, and fiercely independent scholar. What they will discover is an unusual and unconventional love story that echos through their own lives. The chapters of Possession sing with the gorgeous cadences of Ash's poetry as Roland and Maud piece together the relationship between the writer and his muse. Narrator Virginia Leishman captures all the subtlety of Byatt's remarkable book.

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781490648361
      • File size: 656371 KB
      • Duration: 22:47:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel was made into a mediocre film, some critics argued it simply didn't work as a movie. One might also argue that it doesn't make a good audiobook. POSSESSION has a complicated structure--with poems, letters, and journal entries as well as conventional narrative--that's difficult to follow in audio, but these challenges can be overcome. The downfall of this production is that, as brilliant as POSSESSION is, many parts of the novel are eminently skippable. This is easy and guilt-free with the paperback, but impractical with a tape. And while Virginia Leishman reads dialogue well, her overall delivery is too languid, drawing out Byatt's already excessive prose. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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