Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

Contemporary Literary Fiction

Author: A.S. Byatt

In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion – the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives.,,A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stra….Read More

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