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Sugar and Other Stories

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Author A. S. Byatt
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$13.95 US
Knopf | Vintage
On sale Nov 10, 1992 | 256 Pages | 978-0-679-74227-2
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A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, 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.

"Byatt's stories display all her talents as a novelist, but spiced with an additional friskiness...a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather than describe, giving a teacup, a mountainside, or the night sky a texture and density that go beyond words on a page."--Evening Standard

STORIES INCLUDE:

Racine and the Tablecloth

Rose-coloured Teacups

The July Ghost

The Next Room

The Dried Witch

Loss of Face

On the Day that E.M. Forster Died

The Changeling

In the Air

Precipice-Encurled

Sugar
© Michael Trevillion
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children’s Book, The Biographer’s Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her “inspiring contribution to ‘life writing,’” she died in 2023. View titles by A. S. Byatt

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A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, 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.

"Byatt's stories display all her talents as a novelist, but spiced with an additional friskiness...a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather than describe, giving a teacup, a mountainside, or the night sky a texture and density that go beyond words on a page."--Evening Standard

STORIES INCLUDE:

Racine and the Tablecloth

Rose-coloured Teacups

The July Ghost

The Next Room

The Dried Witch

Loss of Face

On the Day that E.M. Forster Died

The Changeling

In the Air

Precipice-Encurled

Sugar

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© Michael Trevillion
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children’s Book, The Biographer’s Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her “inspiring contribution to ‘life writing,’” she died in 2023. View titles by A. S. Byatt

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