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Original Title:	Still Life
ISBN:	0684835037 (ISBN13: 9780684835037)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Frederica Quartet #2
Characters:	Frederica Potter
Literary Awards:	PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award (1986)

Still Life (The Frederica Quartet #2)

A.S. Byatt

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 2134 Users | 135 Reviews

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Title	:	Still Life (The Frederica Quartet #2)
Author	:	A.S. Byatt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	1996 by Scribner (first published May 18th 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels. Contemporary

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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon".

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I didn't realize this book was the second in a series until I was halfway through it. Perhaps I should have read the first book first. Parts of this were fantastic stories with great characters - Frederica is at the cusp of the sexual revolution and one of the few females at Cambridge, figuring herself out. Stephanie has pushed aside her Cambridge education and is dealing with domesticity only to be forced to deal with the family psychological outcasts. The minor characters develop too and

Not quite as strong as The Virgin in the Garden, but not-quite-as-strong Byatt still outranks most authors at full strength, in my book. Stephanie's storyline was the most compelling for me, as she searches for her sense of self after leaving a world of letters for the role of mother and clergy wife. Alexander seems to be included mostly for thematic purposes, at this point - the comparative ease with which he is able to pursue his art and compartmentalize his personal life is striking.

The disadvantage to coming to this series having started with the third book is that when you get near the end of the second book you are waiting for an event that heavily influences what happens in the book you started on. Then you become overly attached to particular settings and situations...The authorial voice is very strong here; there are numerous expositional interruptions. Not the sort we get in the other books, where you get glimpses of a character's future, but full-blown digressions

This was definitely the best book in the Francesca Chronicles. I read Virgin in the Garden quite a while back and had been wanting to get my hands on this book for a long time.I was available on book sites, but the price was forbidding. I managed to get Babel Tower in the 2nd Hand market. As we know, books there are found by serendipity, not design.Still Life is about Francesca's time in Cambridge. It was during the mid fifties. The time was exciting for an intelligent woman with a mind of her

Does this woman not have any humor? I think I'm finished with my enthusiasm for her lovely writing as she digresses into too many examinations of conversations/interests of the university students that are a yawn. The focus of this book seemed to me to be how women deal with their intelligence and life of the mind while tending to family, and job, always a complicated dance. The continuing observations of the effect of light, science of light, light in particular in Van Gogh's paintings were

I had forgotten how much Byatt loves filling her stories with characters. The prologue introduces Alexander Wedderburn in 1980, Frederica eventually Potter (Alexanders full name is given immediately, Fredericas is doled out over time) and Daniel with no last name. Frederica receives letters from Will, who she wishes would also send them to Daniel.The first chapter goes to Stephanie in 1953, and her husband Daniel, and her brother Marcus Potter, which informs us that Stephanie is somehow related

This is a very fit title for this book. It isn't really a sequel as much as a continuation. It now contrasts the artist Van Gogh's failed relationships with those of the book. We can see the bumps ahead for Federica, we can see how unconnected Marcus is. The death at the center throws everything into relief. A Still Life is a painting where the artist tries to show as much of real life as possible while still being an artist. In other words, control life as an artist. But life, as this book says