Volume 46, Number 10 · June 10, 1999
Letting Go
By Gabriele Annan
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
by A.S. Byatt
Random House, 230 pp., $21.95
Human Voices
by Penelope Fitzgerald
Houghton Mifflin, 144 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Elementals is a collection of A.S. Byatt's short stories. It was published in Britain last year, and so was The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, introduced by A.S. Byatt. An introduction of that kind can hardly help being at least a little pronunciamental (and in her photograph on the dust cover of the Oxford book Byatt looks positively vatic). It was brave of her to allow such a coincidence to happen. So the questions are: What are her proclaimed standards, and how will she measure up to them?
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