{"product_id":"9781784743765-secondhand-medusas-ankles-selected-stories-from-the-booker-prize-winner","title":"Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner","description":"A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt\n\nA luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt\n\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL\n\nMirrors 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.\n\nMedusa'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. \n\nDriven 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.\n\n'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful. Byatt is a vivid colourist' Sunday Times\n\n'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' Spectator\n \n '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","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48748263506139,"sku":"9781784743765-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4e0903b0-8545-43a1-8295-075fcec3aa59.jpg?v=1778041407","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781784743765-secondhand-medusas-ankles-selected-stories-from-the-booker-prize-winner","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}