Possession Author:A.S. Byatt "This intelligent, literary, and ambitious thriller will take it's place alongside The ame of the Rose and Waterland as Umberto Eco's scholarly monk and Graham Swift's history teacher are joined by another unconventional type of 'natural detective,' the literary critic..........{Byatt} combines the drive of the thriller with the measured explor... more »ation of human nature more normally associated with the nineteenth-century novel, and throughout she threads the poetry and passion of 'romance' ~The Times(London)« less