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These five long and allegorical stories include "Raw Material" (a satirical story about a creative writing professor), "Body Art" (about a doctor who falls in love with a patient), and "The Thing in the Forest" (about two little girls and a hideous, murderous monster that haunts them even after they grow up). A. S. Byatt, whose inventive, erudite novels have earned her many awards, including the Booker Prize, grounds these stories in a sober realistic mode that also encompasses a large element of fantasy.
| Size | | Length: | 240 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"It's as if Isak Dinesen had magically reappeared, to give us one more unclassifiable baroque masterpiece. Byatt has never written better than in these exquisite stories...."
Kirkus (03/15/2004)
"[O]f all [Byatt's] fictions, it now seems to me that it is the short stories that are most likely to endure....[M]y reaction to these stories is one of joy in their exhilaration, intelligence, boldness and inventiveness, and a sort of irritable impatience....Few other books this year have given me such pleasure as this one."
Literary Review - Amanda Craig
"With an accomplished balance of quotidian detail and eloquent flights of imagination, Byatt has crafted a powerful new collection."
Publishers Weekly (05/03/2004)
"Byatt's stories are provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered. They feed our primitive readerly desires as well as our reflective impulses....Byatt has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race. In this fine and memorable collection, she attains a near perfect balance between low and high, body and mind, the Thing and its significance."
New York Times Book Review - Claire Messud (05/09/2004)
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