TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hughes-Hallett,Lucy
TI  - Fabulous
SN  - 9780008334857
AV  - PR6108.U3945 F33 2019
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - 4th Estate
KW  - Fables
KW  - Adaptations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Bible stories
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
N2  - "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 other ills. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore. 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."--Provided by publisher
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