Like a shaman flying across the globe, his mind tracks the journeys of his subjects to the deserts of Africa and the maelstroms of the Arctic, where the shapes of myth meet the patterns of science. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of coins and undated postcards. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Summary In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Notes Includes bibliographical references. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper.
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