Fires (Phoenix Fiction)
This duo by Yourcenar, the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise, consist, respectively, of a collection of prose poems and three historical novellas. LJ's reviewer found Fires, with its use of classical themes and figures, to be "striking and captivating" (LJ 6/1/81), while Two Lives was dubbed "stylish" (LJ 4/1/87).Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.