{"product_id":"medusas-ankles-book-a-s-byatt-9781784743765","title":"Medusas Ankles","description":"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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534837588241,"sku":"GOR011640405","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697851765009,"sku":"NGR9781784743765","price":32.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50834543247633,"sku":"GOR012690589","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784743763.jpg?v=1751453642","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/medusas-ankles-book-a-s-byatt-9781784743765","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}