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Medusa's ankles : selected stories
- Title
- Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.
- Author
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
- Description
- xvii, 445 pages; 25 cm
- 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 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Contents
- 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
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1471
- ISBN
- 9780593321584
- 0593321588
- LCCN
- 2021016813
- OCLC
- 1243263335
- Author
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, author.
- Title
- Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Mitchell, David (David Stephen), writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Medusa's ankles. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] 9780593321591 (DLC) 2021016814
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1471