Vintage paperback edition of this witty novel from A.S. Byatt which deftly explores the craft of the biographer, and the often fruitless searches he or she undertakes in search of a subject. ...dazzling, captivating, utterly convincing. Readers of lively curiosity and wide interests will revel in it }The Scotsman{ Along the way he meets others building wholes from bits and pieces – taxonomists, ecologists, even travel agents – and begins to puzzle out his future.
