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Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Byatt Medusa
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First United States edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- 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.
- 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
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Medusa's ankles
- Online version: Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Medusa's ankles.
- ISBN:
- 9780593321584
- 0593321588
- OCLC:
- 1243263335
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