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Medusa's Ankles - Selected Stories (Hardcover)
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Medusa's Ankles - Selected Stories (Hardcover)
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List price R643
Loot Price R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
You Save R113 (18%)
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A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning
imagination of A. S. Byatt WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL
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 travel
from Ancient myth to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant
to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairytale
palace. Driven by curiosity, Byatt takes her readers beyond the
veneer of the ordinary and the gloss of the fantastical, to a place
rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. 'A cabinet
of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful. Byatt is a vivid
colourist' Sunday Times 'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with
ideas' Spectator 'These little stories by one of Britain's foremost
grandes dames of the writing world are a delightful surprise,
packing a much greater punch than many full-length novels... They
are moving, thought-provoking, witty and shocking all at once'
Sunday Telegraph
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