Fabulous

Not since Angela Carter's 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. 

About the author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is also a respected critic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.

Summary

Not since Angela Carter’s 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Lucy Hugues-Hallett
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9780008334888
• ISBN: 978-0-00-833488-8
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Magical Realism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Myth & legend told as fiction, British Isles, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, short;crime;mystery;The;cosy