ISBN: 9780593466858 - medusa's ankles: selected stories (vintage international) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, 'a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights' (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas Includes the story 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'--the basis for the George Miller film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's 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 places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorA. S. BYATT is the author of numerous novels, including The Children s Book, The Biographer s Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also written two novellas, published toget.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 464 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas Includes the story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"--the basis for the George Miller film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's 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 places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable. …