Description: A "Globe and Mail" Best Book "What she has made in this case--thanks to a rare fusion of imagination and intellect, sensual poetry and cerebral prose, youthful joy and elderly wisdom--is an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs gods?" --"The Observer " "Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages--jewelled one minute, gory the next--a pleasure to get lost in." --"The Telegraph" "The stern beauty of the writing makes the slender book frighteningly compelling." --"National Post" "The pleasures afforded by this treatment of the myth are numerous. Byatt paints beautiful and fantastic word-pictures, glittering verbal special effects." --"The Scotsman" "Brilliantly effective. . . . Surely among the most beautiful and incisive [pages] Byatt has ever written." --"The Independent" "From the Hardcover edition."

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