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A. S. Byatt (Part II)
A Whistling Woman (Knopf) In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed quartet.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m Listen(Knopf)
In the second of this two-part interview, Dame Byatt talks about the interaction of chance and design in her newly completed quartet. Could the "loose, organic" structure she envisioned when she began, sustain the sequence of novels that took her twenty years to complete. (Part 1)
Read an excerpt from A Whistling Woman.