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Little Black Book of Stories
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 1400075602
ISBN13: 9781400075607
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 8 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781400075607
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 8 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups--from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. - A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race. --The New York Times Book Review
Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw-or thought they saw-something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
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