by A. S. Byatt · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140107630
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«Still Life» is the novel by A. S. Byatt, published by Penguin in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Frederica Potter arrives in Cambridge hungry for knowledge, love and experiences; her sister Stephanie faces domestic life in Yorkshire; Alexander Wedderburn prepares a play about Van Gogh. The figure of the painter runs through the novel, which portrays the conflicts between ambition, domesticity and personal fulfilment in 1950s England.
Second instalment of the series The Frederica Quartet, continuation of The Virgin in the Garden.
For readers of literary and historical fiction seeking a portrait of 1950s England and its social contradictions.
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.
