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The Game: A Novel | A. S. Byatt
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The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers--until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.
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Lcsmcat
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The Game is not chess, even though it‘s on the cover and in my pic. And it‘s not even really the focus of the book. It‘s sisters and mental health and struggling to know your identity. Published in 1967, it has that era‘s focus on characters who feel trapped. The prose is, like that in Possession, florid and full of “five dollar words,” but it packs a punch. 👇🏻

Lcsmcat I‘ve not read anything by Margaret Drabble but this is supposedly autobiographical as far as the sibling rivalry part goes. (Obviously not the ending, and hopefully not the piranha.) #doublespin 2mo
CarolynM I‘ve never got on with AS Byatt, but I liked early Margaret Drabble a lot. From memory this one is her take on the sisterly relationship 2mo
Lcsmcat @CarolynM I read about that one in the article I found about their feud. Adding it to the never-ending list! 2mo
sarahbarnes I found a used copy of this a couple years ago and your review is making me want to move it up the pile. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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Starting my #doublespin on a lazy Saturday morning. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks There's quite a lot going on with this cover - I like it! 2mo
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CarolynM I love it!😍 6y
LauraBeth This cover is beautiful! 6y
Amiable Gorgeous one! Even though I have a snake phobia so it also kind of makes my skin crawl a bit. 😬😀 (edited) 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm Lovely cover! 6y
batsy @Amiable I totally get that 😅 6y
Simona Wow❣️BEAUTIFUL❣️ 6y
Simona ... and of course - I want it. 6y
batsy @Simona The detail in this gives me great pleasure ❤️ 6y
sudi Lovely 😍 6y
GatheringBooks i didn‘t even know this book by byatt existed! gorge cover indeed 6y
Nute Amazing! 6y
Ruthiella Lovely! I have a Byatt cover coming up too!😀 6y
LeahBergen So pretty! 6y
batsy @GatheringBooks I think it can be a polarising book for its depiction of vicious human characters, so as usual when it comes to books like that I loved it 😂 6y
batsy @Ruthiella Ooh, yay! 6y
Centique Would you look at that! 😍😍😍 6y
rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 6y
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The Game: A Novel | A. S. Byatt

"You don't know me. One should never exercise ones imagination on people one doesn't know. It's a kind of theft. Savages believe photographs are theft. So are expectations."