Medusa's Ankles - Selected Stories
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 464 |
| Format | 16,5 x 4,0 x 24,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 696 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781784743765 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78474376UA |
A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL
Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real.
Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and travel from Ancient myth to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairytale palace.
Driven by curiosity, Byatt takes her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary and the gloss of the fantastical, to a place rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable.
'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly b eautiful. Byatt is a vivid colourist' Sunday Times
'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' Spectator
'These little stories by one of Britain's foremost grandes dames of the writing world are a delightful surprise, packing a much greater punch than many full-length novels... They are moving, thought-provoking, witty and shocking all at once' Sunday Telegraph
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It was a pleasure to be reacquainted with 'Medusa's Ankles'... There's an echo of Iris Murdoch here, herself the subject of several books by Byatt Miranda France Literary Review
