Elementals
Subtitle: stories of fire and ice
By: A.S. Byatt.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Polarity -- Fiction
Description: "This collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. A woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world; a schoolgirl draws a blood-filled picture of Jael; a swimming pool reveals a beauteous monster in its depths. The settings range from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, from chalk-strewn classrooms to herb-scented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Crocodile tears; title: A lamia in the Cévennes; title: Cold; title: Baglady; title: Jael; title: Christ in the house of Martha and Mary.