A. S. Byatt

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye : Five Fairy Stories

Vintage, 1995. 1st Edition, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 0099521318. pgs.280 clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear Near Fine.

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A. S. Byatt

The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

Vintage 1995 Paperback, 280pp. The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. Cover worn and creased. (ISBN: 9780099521310). Fair.

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Keywords: Fiction, Short Stories9780099521310 9780099521310