Jackie Collins Meets Vladimir Nabokov: On A.S. Byatt’s 'Possession'

“This improbably buoyant novel combines Shakespearean romance (chaste lovers, guilty passion, children lost and found), detective novel suspense (lost correspondence, visits to scenes of the crime, a coffin disinterred on Halloween), satire on academic fashions (Byatt has a wonderful ear for the idioms of her less than attractive Americans), and a pastiche of styles from Browning to Emily Dickinson. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/a-mixture-of-jackie-collins-and-vladimir-nabokovon-a-s-byatts-possession/ - Thomas D’Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 1990