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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt (1997, Hardcover) 
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt (1997, Hardcover)

 
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt (1997, Hardcover)

Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679420088
ISBN-13: 9780679420088
Product ID: EPID230316
Description: Five long stories based on folk or fairy tales. The title story is actually a novella about a woman who is granted three wishes by a djinn.
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Synopsis
Five long stories based on folk or fairy tales. The title story is actually a novella about a woman who is granted three wishes by a djinn.

Details
Publication Date:1997-11-01

Size
Length:274 pages
Height:7.5 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
A handful of brilliantly imaginative historical and contemporary fairy stories for grow-ups by the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession". Packaged in a beautiful little illustrated edition similar to Byatt's extremely successful collection, "The Matisse Stories", this collection will make a lovely, affordably priced gift that will introduce her magical writing to many new readers.

Industry Reviews
"A. S. Byatt is a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights."
New York Times Book Review - Nancy Willard (11/09/1997)

"The [title novella] is more lumpy than shapely, with too much tedium preceding its magic, even if magic eventually wins the day....The intended showpiece of this book is its weakest link."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Michael Upchurch (11/02/1997)

"What is a fairy tale, exactly? In Ms. Byatt's hands it is a vehicle for the exposition of ideas on art, society, ethics, and freedom, and for the questioning of those ideas, with all these matters expressed in exquisitely light, witty, oblique terms."
Atlantic Monthly - Phoebe-Lou Adams (12/19/1997)

"Four short fairy tales with a contemporary edge, and one novella-length tale that brilliantly transforms a story of middle-age angst into a celebration of serendipity and sex."
Eisler

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