Medusa’s Ankles Selected Stories
Medusa’s Ankles Selected Stories by A. S. Byatt is a collection published by Chatto & Windus in 2021, featuring 464 pages in English. This selection showcases the breadth of Byatt’s short fiction, drawing from her extensive career as a writer. The stories explore a variety of settings and themes, from ancient myths to contemporary life, presenting a vivid tapestry of experiences and emotions.
Readers will encounter a diverse array of characters, including artists and poets, as they navigate through narratives that blend the ordinary with the fantastical. Byatt’s storytelling invites exploration of rich ideas and vibrant imagery, transporting readers to locations such as a Turkish bazaar and a Mediterranean swimming pool. This edition offers a curated glimpse into Byatt’s imaginative world, highlighting her unique ability to weave together elements of fiction, literary depth, and gothic influences.
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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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