Medusa's ankles : selected stories

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan) 1936- (author.). Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan) 1936- Short stories. Selections. (Added Author). Mitchell, David (David Stephen), (writer of introduction.).

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 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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780593321584 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 445 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2021.
Formatted Contents Note:	The July ghost -- Sugar -- Precipice-encurled -- Racine and the tablecloth -- Medusa's ankles -- The Chinese lobster -- Dragon's 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.