Elementals (Short Stories)

✍ Scribed by A. S. Byatt

• Publisher: Vintage Books; Random House
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: Vintage International
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 240 pages
Published: 1998
Edition: Vintage International (2000)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2000) Finalist
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive 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 color and line, a painter discovers the resolution to his artisitc 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 crafter and suffused with boundless wisdom, these bewitching tales are a testament to a writer at the hieght of her powers.