TY  - BOOK
AU  - Byatt,A.S.
AU  - Mitchell,David
TI  - Medusa's ankles: selected stories 
SN  - 9780593321584
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - The; July ghost --; Sugar --; Precipice-encurled --; Racine and the tablecloth --; Medusa's ankles --; The; Chinese lobster --; Dragons' breath --; The; Djinn in the nightingale's eye --; A; Lamia in the Cévennes --; Christ in the house of Martha and Mary --; Cold --; Heavenly bodies --; Raw material --; A; stone woman --; The; narrow jet --; Dolls' eyes --; The; lucid dreamer --; Sea story
N2  - "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"--
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