Medusa's ankles: selected stories - A. S. Byatt

A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A.

Byatt, drawn from her entire career.

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.

Byatt's 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 fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary--even beyond the gloss of the fantastical--to a place rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.