A Whistling Woman, A. S. Byatt
A Whistling Woman, A. S. Byatt
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A Whistling Woman

Author: A. S. Byatt

Narrator: Pamela Garelick

Unabridged: 20 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatts great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thoughtprovoking novel of ideas made flesh.Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to split her world. In the late 1960s, the languages of religion, myth, and fairytale overlap with the terms of science and the new computer age. The meaning of love itself seems to vanish and people flounder, often comically, while searching for their true sexual, intellectual, and emotional identities.Through her wayward, lovingly drawn characters and breathtaking twists of plot, A. S. Byatt illuminates the effervescence of intellectual and social life in 1960s Britain.

About A. S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize–winning Possession, as well as The Children’s Book and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Leesie on 2007-05-04 19:22:41

Reading A.S. Byatt is like exercising your brain -- she's testing to self you'll stick with her and it's usually worth the struggle. While this wasn't my favorite of her books, I'm certainly glad I read it.

Goodreads review by Ellen

Oh AS Byatt, I love ye! Once again another engaging and engrossing book by Ms. Byatt. Sometimes I wonder if other people have realize that Byatt may be one of the smartest authors alive? But her story weaves together Univeristy life, cults, the study of snails, mythology, sexuality, dissertations, c......more

Goodreads review by Jerry

What is important, she thought, is to defend reason against unreason. So thinks the main character, Frederica Potter, the host of a television show that brings astrology to the masses. Unlike the other books in the Frederica Quartet, this fourth installment requires reading the other books to know......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Having just re-read all of A.S. Byatt's Frederica Potter books, I can say that this ending volume isn't all that satisfying. In this book, it's now the late 1960s, and Frederica and her son have settled into post-divorce life. Frederica is the host of a nascent television multimedia talk show involv......more

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