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Article: A. S. Byatt. (Reviews). (book review)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- March 22, 1998
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A. S. BYATT by Kathleen Coyne Kelly. Twayne's English Authors Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xiii + 158 pages. $24.95
Limited to Byatt's early fiction, Kelly's text contains an extensive bibliography that catalogs Byatt's nonfiction. The preface places Byatt as both a realist and a postmodernist, and Kelly explains both terms and why one might judiciously apply them to Byatt's oeuvre. Kelly's work proves valuable in her final chapters on Byatt's later fiction; indeed, the concluding chapters are much better than the earlier ones.
After an introduction describing Byatt's family and educational background, Kelly devotes an unhappy chapter to ...