Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Not since Angela Carters The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new.Not since Wim Winders Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magically combined. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable.Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether shell ever find love.Theyre ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore.The ancients invented myths to express what they didnt understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals. Not since Angela Carters The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new.Not since Wim Winders Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magically combined. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780008334888

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

� 12.07

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE

Within U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Seller Image

Fabulous [Soft Cover ]

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Published by Fourth Estate (2020)

ISBN 10: 0008334889 ISBN 13: 9780008334888

New Soft Cover Quantity: 1

Seller:

booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780008334888

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

� 12.20

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE

Within U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

Fabulous

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2020-08-20, London (2020)

ISBN 10: 0008334889 ISBN 13: 9780008334888

New paperback Quantity: > 20

Seller:

Blackwell's
(London, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780008334888

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

� 8.99

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: � 4.50

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

Fabulous

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Published by Fourth Estate (2020)

ISBN 10: 0008334889 ISBN 13: 9780008334888

New Paperback Quantity: 2

Seller:

Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 7.80x5.20x0.70 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0008334889

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

� 7.59

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: � 10

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

Fabulous

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Published by Fourth Estate (2020)

ISBN 10: 0008334889 ISBN 13: 9780008334888

New Paperback Quantity: 2

Seller:

Monster Bookshop
(Fleckney, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. BRAND NEW ** SUPER FAST SHIPPING FROM UK WAREHOUSE ** 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. Seller Inventory # 9780008334888-GDR

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

� 8.61

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: � 8.99

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image