- Published: 3 December 1999
- ISBN: 9780099273769
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $27.99
Elementals
Stories of Fire and Ice
- Published: 3 December 1999
- ISBN: 9780099273769
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $27.99
Rich physical details, lush sensual descriptions of people and places...Byatt's engaging message is that art, curiosity and stories and save us. Now read on
Michèle Roberts, Independent on Sunday
Byatt weaves myth and art into bewitching fables...an astonishing display of imagination. The whole collection has a kaleidoscopic beauty
Mark Sanderson, Time Out
Drenched in colour, spangled with optical effects, the yarns and parables in Elementals pay rapt attention to a world of light
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
"Cold", the story at the centre of Elementals is entirely fabulous...Its tenor is voluptuous and melancholy, like that of Oscar Wilde's fairy stories, with some of the erotic edge of Angela Carter's...These stories are full of colour and light
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
In a sparkling year for short stories, A.S. Byatt takes all the prizes...A wonderful series of reflections on the harsh realities of life (loneliness, death and betrayal) overlaid with a goassamer-light cloak of passion, mystery and ancient magic
Carolyn Hart, Marie Claire