The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye - Couverture rigide

Byatt, A.S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701162783 ISBN 13 : 9780701162788

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1994

Synopsis

hardback with dustjacket, a neat clean copy

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Those new to the world of Byatt might well begin here, with these tales-within-tales, which one can read as anything from contemporary allegories - such as the superb "Dragon's Breath", evoking every idyll that ever fell foul of war or famine - to sheer celebrations of storytelling itself' - Vogue

'The familiar elements of fairy story come to life under A.S. Byatt's touch. . . with lightness, precision, grace' - Observer

'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' - Spectator

'The fairy story is obviously a form that fascinates A.S. Byatt, it suits her spare, cool prose and this collection enables her to create very different effects. . . a beautifully produced book' - Financial Times

'This book is a work of art' - Daily Telegraph

Biographie de l'auteur :

A.S. Byatt is internationally known as a novelist, short-story writer and critic. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, as well as The Shadow of the Sun, The Game and The Biographer s Tale. Her latest novel, The Children's Book, is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. She is also the author of two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of stories, and has co-edited Memory: An Anthology.

Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0701162783
• ISBN 13: 9780701162788
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288