- English Fantasy fiction, Fairy tales, Fiction, short stories (single author), England, fiction
A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her.
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Intimate, classical in form, prestige and contemporary.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- A. S. Byatt
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND), Random House Value Publishing, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781448162796
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- English Fantasy fiction
- Fairy tales
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- England, fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, short stories
- Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies
- Women authors
- New York Times reviewed
- English literature, history and criticism, 20th century
- English literature, women authors
- English literature, history and criticism, 21st century
- Fiction
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize. In 2008, *The Times* named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. **Source**: [A. S. Byatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt) on Wikipedia.
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