Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375705755)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a short story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge.

"A wonderful book--complex, amusing, clever, and thought-provoking--a reader's dream." --The Plain Dealer

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 color 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
ISBN-10: 0375705759
ISBN-13: 9780375705755
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2000
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/09/2000 pg. 32
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109