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Medusa's ankles : Selected stories / A.S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 (author.). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 July ghost. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Sugar. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Precipice-encurled. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Racine and the tablecloth. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Chinese lobster. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Dragons' breath. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Djinn in the nightingale's eye. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Lamia in the Caevennes. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Christ in the house of Martha and Mary. (Added Author). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023 Cold. (Added Author).

Summary:

"A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, drawn from her entire career. 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 byartists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary-even beyond the gloss of the fantastical-to a place rich and strange and wholly unforgettable"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780593321584
  • ISBN: 0593321588
  • Physical Description: xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition.
  • Publisher: New York : alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

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