PossessionA Romance Author:A.S. Byatt In tis book, [Byatt's] clever, discursive talent at last finds its form. Bursting loose form the more or less naturalistic mode of its predecessors into what an epigraph from Hawthorne calls the 'latitude' of the romance, this cerebral extravaganza of a story zigzags with unembarrasses zest across an imaginative terrain bristling with symbolism... more » and symmetrics, shimmering with myth and legend, and haunted everywhere by presences of the past.....Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provided a feast of them.« less