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Fabulous

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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.

It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable.

Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain.

Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she'll ever find love.

They're ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of `metoo.

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4th Estate
0008334862 / 9780008334864
eBook (EPUB)
823.92
13/06/2019
England
English
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224 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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