Medusa's ankles : selected stories /
Byatt, A. S. 1936-
Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell. - First United States edition. - xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
July ghost -- Sugar -- Precipice-encurled -- Racine and the tablecloth -- Medusa's ankles -- Chinese lobster -- Dragons' breath -- Djinn in the nightingale's eye -- Lamia in the Cévennes -- Christ in the house of Martha and Mary -- Cold -- Heavenly bodies -- Raw material -- stone woman -- narrow jet -- Dolls' eyes -- lucid dreamer -- Sea story The The The A A The The
"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 by artists, 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"--
9780593321584 0593321588
2021016813
Short stories.
Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell. - First United States edition. - xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
July ghost -- Sugar -- Precipice-encurled -- Racine and the tablecloth -- Medusa's ankles -- Chinese lobster -- Dragons' breath -- Djinn in the nightingale's eye -- Lamia in the Cévennes -- Christ in the house of Martha and Mary -- Cold -- Heavenly bodies -- Raw material -- stone woman -- narrow jet -- Dolls' eyes -- lucid dreamer -- Sea story The The The A A The The
"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 by artists, 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"--
9780593321584 0593321588
2021016813
Short stories.