(What an amazing word 'heady' is, en passant, suggesting both acute sensuous alertness and its opposite, the pleasure of the brain as opposed to the viscera-though each is implicated in the other, as we know very well, with both, when they are working. And yet, natures such as Roland's are at their most alert and heady when reading is violently yet steadily alive. There are obvious reasons for this, the most obvious being the regressive nature of the pleasure, a mise-en-abîme even, where words draw attention to the power and delight of words, and so ad infinitum, thus making the imagination experience something papery and dry, narcissistic and yet disagreeably distanced, without the immediacy of sexual moisture or the scented garnet glow of a good burgundy. /rebates/-Byatt-00995039212fplp&.com252f9780099503927252fPossession-A. They do not habitually elaborate on the equally intense pleasure of reading. Possession: Vintage 21 Byatt, A S Published by Vintage Books(2011) ISBN 10: 0099563134ISBN 13: 9780099563136 UsedPaperback Quantity: 2 Seller: WorldofBooks (Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. Novels have their obligatory tour-de-force, the green-flecked gold omelette aux fines herbes, melting into buttery formlessness and tasting of summer, or the creamy human haunch, firm and warm, curved back to reveal a hot hollow, a crisping hair or two, the glimpsed sex. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. Possession, for which Byatt won Englands prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on. “It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. Time magazine calls her a novelist of dazzling inventiveness.

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