Medusas Ankles: Selected Stories - A. S. Byatt
Category: Short Story
Narrator: Esther Wane
Tags: Short Story, Literature, Adults
Publisher: Books on Tape Release date: November 23, 2021 Duration: 18:07:30, David Mitchell - Author of introduction, etc., Publishers Weekly These stories by Booker winner Byatt, three of which are previously uncollected, offer a scintillating look at three decades of the authors work. Her stories transcend genre and stylistic limits, traversing through landscapes fantastical and real, as they bewitch, unnerve, and comfort the reader., The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye blends the natural and supernatural worlds when a scholar falls in love with a djinn she released from a mysterious bottle from an Istanbul bazaar., Dolls Eyes oscillates between the real and unreal too, as it follows a schoolteacher with a large collection of dolls, some of which are alive, In a similar vein, The Lucid Dreamer presents a man for whom real life and dreams begin to mesh as he struggles to regain his ability to dream while processing the loss of his beloved., Grief resurfaces as a theme in A Stone Woman,
