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Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A.S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.

by Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

9780593321584 (hc.)

1st United States ed.

xvii, 445 p. ; 25 cm.

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 Cevennes -- 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.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Literary fiction.

Mitchell, David (David Stephen).

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