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      The Biographer's Tale

      by A.S. Byatt
      Published
      Jan 2001
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      320
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      From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for certainty.

      "Elegant ... witty ... intelligent." —The Washington Post

      Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of "real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. In a series of adventures that are by turns intellectual and comic, scientific and sensual, Phineas tracks his subject to the deserts of Africa and the maelstrom of the Arctic. Along the way he comes to rely on two women, one of whom may be the guide he needs out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer's Tale is a provocative look at "truth" in biography and our perennial quest for certainty.

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      Dec 2001 Vintage ISBN13 9780375725081 ISBN10 0375725083
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      Jun 2001 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099283935 ISBN10 009928393X
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      First Edition Jan 2001 Knopf ISBN13 9780375411144 ISBN10 0375411143
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      May 2001 Knopf ISBN13 9780375413421 ISBN10 0375413421
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      May 2001 Vintage ISBN10 B000FC1GWY
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      Jan 2001 Clipper Audio ISBN13 9781841972077 ISBN10 184197207X
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      Nov 2001 Chivers ISBN13 9780754016410 ISBN10 0754016412
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      Nov 2001 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786235230 ISBN10 0786235233
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