Medusa’s Ankles Audiobook Libro.fm

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A ravishing luminous selection of short stories from the prizewinning 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 bestselling author of Cloud Atlas

Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middleaged 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

Medusas Ankles celebrates the very best of A S Byatts 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 fairytale palace Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinaryeven beyond the gloss of the fantasticalto places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable

Cover image 2021 Succession H Matisse / Artists Rights Society ARS New York