Article: FAIRY TALES WITH A TWIST.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

Byline: Jessica Slater, Rocky Mountain News

A.S. Byatt is best-known for her Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession. Her wide-ranging works, including novels, short stories and essays, have established her as a dominant voice in British literature.

Her writing explores the paradoxical territories between reality and fantasy, story and storyteller, life and art, body and mind.

The five new tales in Little Black Book of Stories are full of such explorations. They are fairy tales with philosophical depth and postmodern twists.

They include: young evacuees during World War II who come across a monstrous creature in the forest and don't ...

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