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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable; the title story and 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body; a 'canary' dies of toxic malice, while in 'Daughters of the Game' and 'The Armour of San Gereone' body doubles stand in for saints and film stars; and beneath a monstrous, charismatic or saintly carapace there turns out to be a man of straw. The insomniac princess finds that unheard melodies are indeed sweeter; whereas several stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model, the film double, and in a grisly reworking of the Brothers Grimm, a girl with bells not on her toes but on her hands. Here are fabulous images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying new collection.
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"Warner writes with the delicacy of a tightrope walker...the result is exhilarating" (Financial Times)
"A fine sheen of intelligent humour...acute and alive" (Sunday Times)
"Reminiscent of AS Byatt's short stories, Marina Warner's tales glimmer with the cerebral pickings of a true culture vulture" (Independent)
"Sparkles with her inimitable and sophisticated style. These tales, both crisp and lyrical, form a cosmopolitan mixture of art history, magic, fairytale and urban myth" (Independent on Sunday)
"Exhilarating" (Sunday Telegraph)
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"A fine sheen of intelligent humour...acute and alive" (Sunday Times)
"Reminiscent of AS Byatt's short stories, Marina Warner's tales glimmer with the cerebral pickings of a true culture vulture" (Independent)
"Sparkles with her inimitable and sophisticated style. These tales, both crisp and lyrical, form a cosmopolitan mixture of art history, magic, fairytale and urban myth" (Independent on Sunday)
"Exhilarating" (Sunday Telegraph)
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0701173033
- ISBN 13 9780701173036
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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