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100			_aByatt, A. S.
245		0	_aBiographer'S Tale _c/ A.S. Byatt
250			_aPaperback Edition
260			_aLondon _b: Vintage Books _c, 2001
300			_a272 p.
520			_aFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth. Phineas G. Nanson, a disillusioned post-graduate student, decides to leave his abstract studies and pursue a seemingly concrete task: to write a biography of a great biographer. But Phineas quickly discovers that facts can be unreliable and a “whole life” hard to define. As he tracks his subject from Africa to the Arctic, he comes to rely on two women–one of whom may be the guide he needs out 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.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aFiction
650			_aBiography
942			_cRBK
999			_c68626 _d68626