Elementals Stories of Fire and Ice
- List Price: $16.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
Description:
A woman witnesses her husband's death from a heart attack and feels compelled to flee, physically and emotionally, before she can deal with her loss. A creative director in an advertising company compares her youthful love of rich color and biblical treachery with the modem tendency in her firm toward edgier images and professional betrayal. A princess whose well-being depends on a cold climate marries a handsome prince from a desert kingdom, and her love for him puts her very life in jeopardy.
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These are some of the extremes and polarities that A. S. Byatt dramatizes in this mesmerizing and always surprising collection of stories. Filled with the literal or metaphorical presence of fire and ice, all the stories here treat an opposition of one kind or another, and as a whole they address eloquently and with the author's customary sensual and startling imagery -- a tide of blood in the Bible story of Jael, a dazzling castle of glass, a shade of blue that haunts an artist's imagination -- the difficulty of reconciling the often contrary drives of our all-too-human condition. A star turn of short-story splendor, coherence, and range.
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