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      A Whistling Woman

      by A.S. Byatt
      Published
      Dec 2002
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives. 

      "Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human." —Vogue

      Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in academic research, the university is planning a prestigious conference on body and mind, and a group of students and agitators is establishing an "anti-university." And nearby a therapeutic community is beginning to take the shape of a religious cult under the influence of its charismatic religious leader.

      A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.

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      Oct 2003 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099443391 ISBN10 0099443392
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