num_pages: 619
description: Babel Tower follows The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life in tracing Frederica Potter, a lover of books who reflects the author's life and times. It centers around two lawsuits: in one, Frederica -- a young intellectual who has married outside her social set -- is challenging her wealthy and violent husband for custody of their child; in the other, an unkempt but charismatic rebel is charged with having written an obscene book, a novel-within-a-novel about a small band of revolutionaries who attempt to set up an ideal community. And in the background, rebellion gains a major toehold in the London of the Sixties, and society will never be the same.
language: English
title: Babel Tower
titlecomplete: Babel Tower
characters: Frederica Potter
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Books About Books
ratings_count: 2722
series: The Frederica Quartet
publisher: Random House Value Publishing