{"product_id":"fabulous-stories","title":"Fabulous: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” \u003cem\u003ePeculiar Ground\u003c\/em\u003e (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucy Hughes-Hallett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55254414426403,"sku":"9780062940094","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062940094.jpg?v=1781827974","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/fabulous-stories","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}