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Introduction copyright © 2021 by David Mitchell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), [date] author.

Title: Medusa’s ankles : selected stories / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by David Mitchell.

Description: First United States edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021016813 (print) | LCCN 2021016814 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593321584 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593321591 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PR6052.Y2 M43 2021 (print) | LCC PR6052.Y2 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021016813

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021016814

Ebook ISBN 9780593321591

Cover design and painting by Anabeth Bostrup

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