The Biographer’s Tale
Author: A.S. Byatt
Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student, decides to immerse himself in the messiness of ‘real life’ by writing a biography of a great biographer. But a ‘whole life’ is hard to find. Everywhere he looks he discovers only fragments – strange notes, boxes of marbles, undated postcards.As Phineas’s research continues, his mind roams from the deserts of Africa to the….Read More
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