Description: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye Five Fairy Stories Byatt, A. S. Published by Random House, NY, 1994. First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. SIGNED /INSCRIBED by the author on the title page.; very good + tight clean hardcover dust jacket (price present front flap) The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed, signed
Signed: Yes
Author: A.S. Byatt
Personalized: Yes
Publisher: Random
Topic: Literature, Modern
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1994
