She lives in London." - Laurel Maury, San Francisco Chronicle If you have any spare monsters, say, in your backyard, please mail them to her. It tries to be one of those security-blanket books, like Salinger's Nine Stories, but it needs more monsters. A delight for Byatt's longtime readers, they offer a rebuke to her critics: here the very patterning that might weigh heavily in her longer fiction yields a fulfilling substance." - Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review "Carefully constructed, highly allusive, containing fictional artists and artfully faked "fiction" within the fiction, these five stories are not just meditations on art and its place in the world they are also thrilling Gothic tales in their own right.Occasionally, such emblematic qualities are worn a little too much on the sleeve: does "Body Art", which deals with a lapsed Catholic, really need lead characters named Becket and Whimple? But Byatt's skill lies in her ability to capture in one story both the fantastical and the entirely human." - Nicola Smyth, Independent on Sunday "These tales, like those in Joyce's Dubliners, seem steeped in the sense that, one by one, we are all becoming shades.(.) There's nothing Victorian or pre-Raphaelite about them, although they often lack the form's charm." - Mary Flanagan, The Independent "The Green Fairy Book this isn't: the five substantial tales in AS Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories are strictly for grown-ups.It is her finest collection yet." - Ali Smith, The Guardian " Little Black Book of Stories is tough and good, stony in all the best ways, vitally not nice."In this wintry, supremely elegant collection, Byatt ( Possession) peels back the surface of everyday life-and what she reveals may disturb your sleep." - Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly." Little Black Book of Stories is the ideal primer for anyone who has not yet discovered AS Byatt, and a delight for those who have." - Cressida Connolly, Daily Telegraph.No consensus - not even about which are the good stories - but generally think some of the stories are very impressive Includes the story A Stone Woman, also published in The New Yorker.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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