![]() ![]() Their content seems far out of character from what Roland knows about Ash. But turning over the pages of the book Roland discovers two draft letters by Ash to an unnamed woman. ![]() The book had once been owned by Ash and Roland is hoping to find sources for one of Ash’s poems. One September day in 1986, 29 year old Roland goes to the London Library to find a copy of Principi di Scienza Nuova by the Italian philosophy Vico. Cropper is also a trustee for the trust that funds the department where Roland works under Professor Blackadder. ![]() A further major hinderance to his career is the fact that despite being an English poet, the largest collection of Ash’s work is held by Dale Owen University in New Mexico, whose Professor, Mortimer Cropper, is the world’s leading authority on Ash. Despite his extensive education, a career as an expert in an obscure Victorian poet is far from lucrative and Roland works as a dishwasher when he isn’t researching or tutoring and is otherwise financially reliant on his girlfriend, Val, as he has been for years while he earned his post-graduate diplomas. Roland Michel is an underemployed academic whose specialty is the work of a Victorian poet named Randolf Henry Ash. It is a highly complex and considered novel that combines mystery, conflict, romance and tragedy with more than a whiff of satire and self-awareness. AS Byatt’s Possession won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1990. ![]()
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