{"product_id":"little-black-book-of-stories-9781400075607","title":"Little Black Book of Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups--from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. - \"A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eLittle Black Book of Stories\u003c\/i\u003e offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etwo middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw-or thought they saw-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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Black Book of Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is Byatt at the height of her craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400075607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2005 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2005 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"A. S. Byatt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132868985013,"sku":"9781400075607","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6555b66a-24ae-4895-8d50-4bfc35595701.jpg?v=1695135276","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/little-black-book-of-stories-9781400075607","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}