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Elementals

A. S. Byatt

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#5864 of 8,085 books · #1123 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2000).

Elementals is 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 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.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9780307425737
Topics
Love and passionIdentity and transformationArt and creativity

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