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Living thing

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"The Living Thing" is the second novel of the "Frederica Quartet," considered perhaps the major work of Dame Antonia Susan Byatt, a Chevalier of the Order of the British Empire. The tetralogy was written over the course of a quarter century, and its plot also has a quarter-century span, with the first two novels published before the Booker Prize-winning international bestseller Possess, and the third and fourth after. So Frederica Potter begins her studies at Cambridge, frantically hungry for knowledge, for independent, adult life, for love - at exactly the moment in history when traditionally isolated Britain receives a massive inoculation of European culture and begins to irreversibly change. While her older sister Stephanie sacrifices her studies and academic career for her family, and her younger brother Marcus recovers from a nervous breakdown, Frederica, contrary to Monet and Mallarmé's insistence on "the happiness of gradually guessing the subject," prefers to call things by their proper names. And neither Frederica, Stephanie nor Marcus have any idea of the tragedy that awaits them all in the future....
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