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"There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader."

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About A. S. Byatt

English novelist, critic, and scholar whose fiction combined intellectual depth with formal experimentation. She received broad acclaim for works including Possession, which won the Booker Prize. Her career also included influential literary criticism and essays.

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