Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice - Brossura

Byatt, A. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375705759 ISBN 13: 9780375705755

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

An anthology of stories explores the theme of opposites--alienation and passion, life and art--in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375705759
• ISBN 13: 9780375705755
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240