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"Complex, amusing, clever, and thought-provoking" ("The Plain Dealer"), this collection of stories by the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession" transports readers to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge. 6 illustrations.

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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 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.

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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.

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Título Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
Autor A. S. Byatt
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición 1st paper ed.
Páginas 240
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Fecha de publicación July 11, 2000
Ilustrado Sí
ISBN 9780375705755 / 0375705759
Peso 0.56 libras (0.25 kg)
Dimensiones 8 x 5.22 x 0.69 pulgadas (20.32 x 13.26 x 1.75 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Polarity
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"Fired by a fierce intelligence and related in shimmering prose.  This eclectic little volume should delight A. S. Byatt's devoted readers and attract many new ones."  -The New York Times

"A stunning display.... Elementals combines finely wrought stories with imagery as sparkling as jewels.  It is a work that should not be missed."  -The Denver Post

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

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New York Times, 12/03/2000, Page 109

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A.S. BYATT is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game, and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.

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