false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg 86890 7 Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.<br><br><b>Little Black Book of Stories</b> offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood:<i> </i>two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw&#8211;or thought they saw&#8211;something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the <b>Little Black Book of Stories</b> is Byatt at the height of her craft. 1128986 2003 Little Black Book of Stories total:481|5:121|4:195|3:129|2:30|1:6| 481 1838 696 74 1141653 1400041775 9781400041770 38 5 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255903029m/1141653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1141653.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 5 2 false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Sep 24 13:21:50 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 13:21:50 -0700 2007 Her short stories have a quality that is so unique - many of them...more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 3 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 20:35:40 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 15:23:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 4 2 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 20 19:24:18 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 19:28:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 29 19:01:38 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 26 11:46:10 -0800 2008
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Not sure how I feel about this one. Honestly, the reviews on the back of the book blew it so out of proportion that I felt I should feel underwhelmed, so the fact that I am is all the more disappointing. Ms. Byatt c...more...]]> 1141653 1400041775 9781400041770 38 5 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255903029m/1141653.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1141653.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:25:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:25:19 -0800 2009 Byatt's readers fall into two camps. Some find her enthusiasm for minutiae in these Gothic tales infuriating—not everyone wants to read an extended description of the proper treatment of stoves. These detractors find this collection too smart for its own good, its many facts and metafictional digr...

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Byatt certainly knows how to begin a story. The first offering in this collection is "The Thing in the Forest" and it begins, sim...more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 0 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 10:16:53 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 07:34:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 0 0 false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 03:04:19 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 13 02:42:21 -0700 2009
Little Black Book of Stories collects five of A.S. Byatt’s complex, riveting fictions. Each one is marvelous i...more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 5 0 false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 18 13:47:35 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 09 11:22:40 -0700 2008 Another nice thing about this co...more...]]> 86890 1400075602 9781400075607 435 68 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171089200m/86890.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86890.Little_Black_Book_of_Stories 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 19:33:48 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 06:36:14 -0800 2007
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