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Fabulous
Fabulous: Stories | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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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.
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lauraisntwilder
Fabulous: Stories | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Mehso-so

Finished these today.

Among the Shadows was fine, just not as spooky (or memorable) as I would've liked. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Fabulous was a collection of modern retellings of fables & myths. Some of the stories were pretty good, but I found that I enjoyed them more when I was unfamiliar with the original story. A couple of them were so vague, specifically when dealing with magic or the divine, that they just didn't work.

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lauraisntwilder
Fabulous: Stories | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Just noticed this stack of de-jacketed hardcovers, each a current read, looked very Christmas-y for late October.

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kellock
Fabulous: Stories | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Not all shelves are for books, this will brighten my day every time I look at it 💖

Nute Pretty! 3y
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