The Archivist

A Novel

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Paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published April 8, 1999 by Back Bay Books.

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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.

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An archivist, curator of a literary legacy of T.S. Eliot, and a post-graduate student who wants a sneak preview of the contents. She is a poet, as was his wife, and he seems to have relived something of Eliot's own life. Reminiscent of [b:Possession|41219|Possession|A.S. Byatt|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1391124124s/41219.jpg|2246190] by [a:A.S. Byatt|1169504|A.S. Byatt|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1388376297p2/1169504.jpg].

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