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Title: Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. BYATT ISBN: 1-4000-4177-5 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True Talent
Comment: Initially I was attracted to "Little Black Book" by its mysterious cover that appeared aged amongst a sea of glossy new titles. As her book appears, A. S. Byatt is a unique talent. Byatt's stories show considerable skill with language and story, inventiveness, restraint from flamoyance and a kind of hopeful darkness. Most of the short stories are highly layered, richly imbued with double entendre, history, folklore and mythology. For their mystery, evocative quality and flirtation with the horror genre I give them the highest recommendation possible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, magical, evocative!
Comment: I love A.S. Byatt. Hers is a voice full of magic, her stories incomparable. Having read The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, I couldn't wait to read another one of her collections of short stories. The Little Black Book of Stories offers dark, disarming vignettes with a touch of magical realism. Reading between the lines is required in most of the stories. My favorites are "The Thing in the Wood," "Raw Material," "Body Art," and "The Pink Ribbon." The aforementioned stories are written with beautiful, magical prose. I marvel at this author's literary talent. I cannot wait to read more of her stuff. In the meantime, I recommend this amazing, evocative effort...
Rating: 5
Summary: To write like this!
Comment: To write like this, to really write like this, what power! These stories take hold of the mind like the great myths of the past. The sentences are crisp and clean, and simple in the way the best of all great writing is simple, with a simplicity that stirs to life the deep complexities of the subconscious. If I could write like this I would die happy.
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Title: Sweet Land Stories by E.L. DOCTOROW ISBN: 1400062047 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0399151613 Publisher: Marian Wood Book Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Master by Colm Toibin ISBN: 0743250400 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 02 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Old School by TOBIAS WOLFF ISBN: 0375401466 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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