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The Matisse Stories
This elegant, beautifully illustrated edition contains three stories, each touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings - a trip to the hairdresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant - but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Apr 30th, 1996
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.21in - 0.41in - 0.37lb
- EAN: 9780679762232
- Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Visionary & Metaphysical
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About the Author
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.
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Praise for this book
"An elegant collection [filled with] richly resonant prose, which evokes the look and feel of bodies and paintings.... Luminous." --The New York Times Book Review
"A. S. Byatt's three-tale sequence hits the imagination's retina with all the vibrant splatter of an exploding paintbox.... Everywhere, scenes sizzle with chromatic intensity." --Sunday Times
"Full of delight and humor ... The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A writer of dazzling inventiveness." --Time
"Brilliant... Byatt's fiction, like Matisse's art, pays close attention to colours and contours of surfaces, then probes beneath them to reveal further suprises." --Newsday
"Exquisite triptych... The Matisse Stories is richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to people." --People