Fabulous - Lucy Hughes-Hallett - Music - HarperCollins - 9781094105659 - January 14, 2020
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Fabulous

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From the author of the "sophisticated and erudite" Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe), comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.

It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable.

Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she'll ever find love.

They're ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore.

The ancients invented myths to express what they didn't understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released January 14, 2020
ISBN13 9781094105659
Label HarperCollins
Dimensions 125 × 140 × 10 mm   ·   200 g   (Weight (estimated))

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