Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginative story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites — passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice — clash and converge.
A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in love with a desert prince, whose passionate touches scorch her delicate skin. A woman flees the scene of her husband's heart attack, leaving her entire past behind her. Striving to master colour and line, a painter discovers the resolution to his artistic problems when a beautiful and magical water snake appears in his pool. And a wealthy Englishwoman gradually loses her identity while wandering through a shopping mall. Elegantly crafted and suffused with boundless wisdom, these bewitching tales are a testament to a writer at the height of her powers.
- Author
- A.S. Byatt
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780375705755
- Genres
- fiction, fantasy, literature, anthologies
- Release date
- 2000
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