Fabulous stories Hughes-Hallett, Lucy creator author. text Fiction. Short stories. Short stories. nyu 2020 2020 First U.S. edition. monographic eng print 205 pages ; 22 cm "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. Orpheus -- Actaeon -- Psyche -- Pasiphae -- Joseph -- Mary Magdalen -- Tristan -- Piper Lucy Hughes-Hallett. "Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers." -- Title page verso. e-uk--- Fables Adaptations Fiction Mythology, Greek Adaptations Fiction Folklore Adaptations Fiction Bible stories Adaptations Fiction Great Britain Social conditions 21st century Fiction Bible stories Fables Folklore Mythology, Greek Social conditions Great Britain 2000-2099 fast PR6108.U3945 A6 2019 823.92 9780062940094 0062940090 pda,print YDX 190413 20250318220747.8 in00004156869 eng