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050 0 0 _aPR6108.U3945
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100 1 _aHughes-Hallett, Lucy,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFabulous /
_cLucy Hughes-Hallett.
264 1 _aLondon :
_b4th Estate,
_c2019.
300 _a205 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aFables
_vAdaptations
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMythology, Greek
_vAdaptations
_vFiction.
650 0 _aFolklore
_vAdaptations
_vFiction.
650 0 _aBible stories
_vAdaptations
_vFiction.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xSocial conditions
_y21st century
_vFiction.
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