Description
A collection of short stories:
Crocodile Tears
A Lamia in the Cevennes
Cold
Baglady
Jael
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
‘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
‘Exquisitely formed stories brim with fine detail…The descriptions of place, as seen and as experienced, are beautiful’ Emily Perkins, Observer
‘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 gossamer-light cloak of passion, mystery and ancient magic’ Carolyn Hart, Marie Claire
Softcover, 230 pages. In very good pre-loved condition. Ex-library.