by A. S. Byatt · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140087031
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«Still Life» is the literary fiction novel by A. S. Byatt, published by Penguin in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge hungry for knowledge, sex and love; her sister Stephanie trades academia for family life, and Alexander Wedderburn writes a play about Van Gogh. The novel explores the tension between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, with a look at English intellectual and cultural life in the 1950s.
Second novel in the «The Frederica Quartet» series by A. S. Byatt, following «The Virgin in the Garden».
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century British fiction, as well as those interested in the Frederica Potter series.
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
