Medusa’s Ankles
Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner
$22.15
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2024
Summary
A luminous single-volume selection of short stories from the Booker 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 fic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112993 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529112990 |
| Author: | A.S. Byatt, David Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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It was a pleasure to be reacquainted with ‘Medusa’s Ankles’… There’s an echo of Iris Murdoch here, herself the subject of several books by Byatt – Miranda France * Literary Review *
About The Author
A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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