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082			_223 _a823.914 BYA
100			_aByatt, A. S.
245		4	_aThe Djinn In The Nightingale'S Eye _c/ A.S. Byatt
250			_aContemporary Fiction Series
260			_aLondon _b: Vintage Books _c,1995
300			_a288 p.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aEnglish Fantasy Fiction
650			_a Fairy Tales Fiction
650			_aShort Stories
942			_cRBK
999			_c68645 _d68645