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Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner

Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner

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A. S. Byatt's collection of short stories, "The Children's Book," showcases her vivid imagination and ability to create unforgettable characters and settings. The stories explore a range of themes, from the ordinary to the fantastical, and are filled with creativity, wit, and emotion.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing


A luminous collection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing. With an introduction by David Mitchell, Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in color, and wholly unforgettable. 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.

Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, these stories travel from the ancient mythic world to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace. Blazing with creativity, they show what lies beneath the veneer of the ordinary and reveal the fantastical possibilities beyond.

A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful.

Sunday Times.

A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas.

Spectator.

Moving, witty, and shocking.

Sunday Telegraph.

Weight: 324g
Dimension: 196 x 128 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529112993

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