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Sugar And Other Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Sugar And Other Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) A S Byatt
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780099599319
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 7 November 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Antonia Byatt's first collection of stories displays all her talent as a novelist, but spiced with additional friskiness... a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather than describe' - Penelope Lively, Evening Standard It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder.

Author Biography

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the Frederica Quartet; The Children's Book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999 and is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing'.

Reviews

Superbly observed...spare, concise and clever in the best sense...do not miss this collection -- Robin Lane Fox * Financial Times * A fascinating mixed bag, unified by the dignified, restrained strenuousness with which their subjects attempt to piece together a life -- William Henry Holmes * Daily Mail * These stories are the product of a distinctive and powerful imagination...superbly satisfying -- Caroline Moore * Literary Review * Beautifully crafted, supple and compassionate * Irish Times *