| ISBN |
9781784743765 (hardback) |
| Name |
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- author. |
| Uniform title |
Short stories. Selections |
| Title |
Medusa's ankles : selected stories / A.S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell. |
| Published |
London : Chatto & Windus, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
xvii, 441 pages ; 25 cm. |
| 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 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. |
| Summary |
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will delight readers. |
| Subjects |
Short stories, English -- 20th century |
| Short stories, English -- 21st century |
| Genre |
Short stories |
| Other Names |
Mitchell, David (David Stephen) writer of introduction. |
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