Word: towering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Possession is by far A.S. Byatt's best-known novel. A miraculous blend of contemporary and Victorian morality and romance, it won the 1990 Booker Prize in Britain just as it was being published in the U.S. to glowing reviews and warm sales. Babel Tower (Random House; 625 pages; $25.95) is Byatt's first novel since then, and will surely attract the attention of all those enchanted by Possession. It is also likely to provoke some head scratching, since the new novel continues a story begun in two of Byatt's earlier, pre-Possession books...
...that it's necessary to have read The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life to pick up on the action and characters of Babel Tower. Still, the opening pages suggest that a lot has gone on before anything here begins...
...novel, the appearance of a strange, semipornographic novel, Babbletower, about a group of escapees from the French Revolution who try to form an ideal community and lapse instead into an orgy of violence and torture. Chapters of the novel are interspersed throughout the first half or so of Babel Tower, and when the thing is finally published, with the helping hand of Frederica, the government decides to prosecute it under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. And yet a third narrative follows the members of a government committee as they travel to various schools in order to file a report...
...HRTV staged a screening of Ivory Tower episodes in a packed Loker Commons for the benefit of the film crew...
Whatever the outcome of the coverage, Bush said that Ivory Tower and all of HRTV's shows are doing better than ever...