Title: For lovers of literature...
Product review: Byatt indulges her readers' fascination with literature in this novel about a woman on trial for her intellectualism and a talented (although repulsive) author whose novel is on trial for obscenity. If you love book reading, book education, book banning, book burning, and books-within-books, then this is the novel for you. Of course, this is no easy read, with literary allusions disperseded throughout and in-depth analyses of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Women in Love" that seem for all the world taken from the author's doctoral thesis and fail to add much to the storyline. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable work which ultimately centers on the love of a mother for her child and our appreciation of great writing.
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