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A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas
Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's 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 places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.
Medusa's Ankles Selected Stories
by Byatt, A. S.; Mitchell, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2021-11-23
Publisher(s): Knopf
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Author Biography
A. S. BYATT is the author of numerous novels, including The Children’s Book, The Biographer’s Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her “inspiring contribution to ‘life writing,’” she lives in London.
Table of Contents
Introduction
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
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
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