Little Black Book of Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. S. Byatt
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: England and Iceland
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Mythology or myths, World War II, England or English people, Women, Medicine, Worms, Iceland or Icelanders, Stone
- Locales: England, Iceland
The books of English author A. S. Byatt are an acquired taste, like fine wine or caviar, but well worth the effort. Readers are probably most familiar with her novel Babel Tower (1996) or the award-winning Possession: A Romance (1990), although her stories and novellas are held in equally high regard. She loves words and color, and her writing is precise, textured, with a bright palette and a preponderance of lists: “the endless shifts in the colour of the sky, trout-dappled, mackerel-shot, turquoise, sapphire, peridot, hot transparent red.”
Byatt's childhood...
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