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Shadow of a Sun

Shadow of a Sun

by A. S. Byatt

Publisher Chatto & Windus

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  • Hardcover

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Chatto and Windus, 1964. Hardcover. Book Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. The First UK Printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1964. Book is in near fine condition. A little pushing of the spine ends .Mild dustiness of upper text block. The WRAPPER is complete and in very good plus condition. A little fading of colouring to the spine. Small closed tear to upper rear cover with a little soiling to the cover in places. Very scarce to find in wrapper. Author's First Book.

About the book

The Shadow of the Sun is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist.

About the Author

A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally as A.S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize-winner. In 2008, The Times newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.


She has written critical studies of Dame Iris Murdoch, who was a friend, mentor and a significant influence on her own writing. Also known for her short stories, Byatt has been influenced by Henry James and George Eliot as well as Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot and Robert Browning, in merging realism and naturalism with fantasy. Her story collections include Sugar and Other Stories (1987); The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994), a collection of fairy tales; Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998); and Little Black Book of Stories (2003). The Matisse Stories (1993) features three pieces, each describing a painting by Henri Matisse, each the tale of an initially smaller crisis that shows the long-present unravelling in the protagonists' lives. Her books reflect a continuous interest in zoology, entomology, geology and Darwinism among other repeated themes.


Byatt has written for media including the British journal Prospect, The Guardian, The Times and The Times Literary Supplement. She has been a judge on many literary award panels including the Hawthornden Prize, the Booker, David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Betty Trask Award.

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